Events
Puerto Rican Studies Association (PRSA) Biennial Conference
Panel Organizer + Paper Presenter
September 11–13, 2026 | University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), Chicago, IL
Panel Title: Rescued Schools as Solidarity Futures: Mapping Care and Worldmaking in the Archipelago
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Imagining America National Gathering
Workshop Presenter & National Advisory Board Host
October 23–25, 2026 | University of California, Davis (UC Davis), Davis, CA
Workshop Title #1: Data Labs for Trying Times
Workshop Title #2: Water Justice for Baltimore: A Creative Conversation
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Comparative & International Education Society (CIES) Northeast Regional Conference
Paper Presenter
November 13–15, 2026 | Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY
Panel Title: Puerto Rico’s School Closures as Educide: Educational Displacement and the Affective Remaking of Schools
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Media
NYU MLK Week 2026
Panel Moderator
Led a high-profile university-wide plenary dialogue honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy, moderating an intimate conversation with author Min Jin Lee, actor Michael Ealy, and NYC Council Member Yusef Salaam on institutional equity, public art, and radical pedagogy.
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book talk: Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, PhD at CUNY Graduate Center
Conversation Partner
Served as a discussant with visual urbanist Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, PhD, on her book, The Cities We Need: Essential Stories of Everyday Places (MIT Press), exploring placework, everyday urbanism, and spatial justice.
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Invited talk: Generative Learning and Complexity Lab, UGA
Invited Speaker
An invited presentation to faculty, graduate students, and researchers on applying the Story Circle Interview Method, ethical qualitative inquiry, and participatory research design at the University of Georgia’s Generative Learning and Complexity Lab.
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Partnership Work Podcast
Guest Speaker — Episode: "Remixing Research"
An in-depth conversation exploring participatory action research, relational inquiry, and creative approaches to ethically "remixing" research methodologies in community-engaged projects.