PAST PUBLIC ENGAGEMENTS
2025
Guest Panelist: In the Interstices: a conversation on memory and archives
May 2025, Art Museum, University of Toronto
Guest Panelist: A Journey through Otherworld: Connecting with ancestors through the archive
March 2025, Art Museum, University of Toronto
2024
Talkback Facilitator: One hundred more artist talkback
November 2024, Toronto, Biennial of Art, Theatre Centre
Guest Panelist: Contextualizing systemic anti-Black racism in ballet
November 2024, Ballet Forward Empowerment Summit, National Youth Assembly Gathering
Co-host: Dance Collection Danse Canadian Dance Hall of Fame
November 2024, Dance Collection Danse, Palais Royale
2023
Moderator: Post screening chat with creators and dancers featured in Swan Song
October 2023
Reading of citation for Elder Dr. Mona Stonefish upon receiving her Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree
June 2023, University of Guelph
Guest Expert: Swan Song
2023, Visitor Media
2022
Guest: Remixing the Archive: A Conversation with Black Creatives
2022, The Laboratory for Black Creativity, Toronto Metropolitan University
Guest: Eugenics Podcast. Forward Thinking: EDI in Canadian Higher Education with Heena Mistry.
November 2022
Speaker, roundtable: Configurations in Motion: The Commons of Colour
2022, Dancewest Network
Guest Panelist: The ABC’s of Dramaturgical Ecologies
January 2022, The Dramaturgical Ecologies (de) Research Group and Concordia 4th Space
Guest Lecturer: LEGACY SERIES JAZZ Symposium: Natasha Powell
October 2022
2021
Guest Speaker: Blackness and Professional Dance in Canada
May 2021, National Ballet of Canada, Cultural Pluralism and the Arts Movement Ontario
Guest Speaker: Written reflection on visual and performing artist Senga Nengudi’s exhibition Hourglass.
February 2021, Oakville Galleries
Guest Panelist: Older and Reckless Circle Dance Talk 20th Anniversary Season
November 2021
Guest Speaker: Selma Odom Lecture Series
May 2021, York University Dance Department
Guest Panelist: Anti-Racism, Decolonization and Performance
2021, School of Creative and Performing Arts, University of Calgary
2020
Panelist: Racism in Canadian Dance Institutions
Fall 2020,The Exhibitionists television series, CBC Television, Season Six, Episode 3
Panelist: Living Well: A Conversation on Decolonizing and Reclaiming Wellness
September 2020, Hart House, University of Toronto
Speaker: Performance: From the Archives: Marilyn Nazar and Seika Boye.
July 2020, Art Gallery of Ontario
Co-curator with Timea Wharton for Solo in High Park
September 2020, Canadian Stage
2017
Co-curator with Dr. Thomas F. DeFrantz (Duke University) for Configurations in Motion: Curating Performance and Communities of Colour
June 2017, Concordia University