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• November 13, 2024: Guest speaker with Darian Woods at HR Innovators, a daylong summit for HR executives. Presented about the impact of immigration on the workforce.
• October 26, 2024: Pitch party juror for podcast festival, Resonate.
• October 25, 2024: Guest speaker with Darian Woods at the Influencers Conference in Nyack, New York. Presented “Ghost jobs, Economic Myths and Immigration” a game show and live Planet Money episode.
• March 26, 2024: Guest speaker at NYU’s graduate-level investigative podcasting class taught by Hilke Schellmann.
• November 3, 2023: Presented “Better research, better podcast” with Planet Money co-host Mary Childs at the Resonate podcast festival in Richmond, Virginia.
• September 18, 2023: Panel moderator at the Clinton Global Initiative. Facilitated a conversation about “Stronger Communities, Stronger Economies: preparing enterprises for economic uncertainty.”
• May 16, 2023: Guest speaker for an online meeting of Neo Collections, a collaboration between Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, the Übersee-Museum Bremen and the Nationalmuseum Sweden to rethink the way museum collections are curated, enriched and accessed.
• March 27, 2023: Guest lecturer at NYU’s Business & Economic Reporting program.
• November 22, 2022: Guest speaker for an online discussion of “Oceania Digital: a multi-platform project connecting different disciplines and global communities to create a museum concept for the future.”
• April 6, 2021: Guest on a panel exploring how Canada’s healthcare system really works, and why its perception in the U.S. is so polarized. This event was co-organized by the Canadian Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley and McGill University.
• May 1, 2020: Guest lecture at the Journalism Institute at NYU, part of a series on “Reporting During the Pandemic” along with the New York Times’ Sam Dolnick and the New Yorker’s Jiayang Fan.
• March 9, 2020: Guest lecturer at NYU’s Business & Economic Reporting program. Last class before NYU’s COVID-19 shutdown.
• September 27, 2018: Part of a panel discussion at the New York Academy of Science on The Intersection of Science and Journalism.
• May 28 – June 1, 2018: Presented at the Digital Identities & Google News Lab powered workshop on impact journalism in Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai — notes from our discussion on podcasting can be found here.
• May 19, 2018: Moderated the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism Homecoming Alumni Radio Panel.
• May 9, 2018: Lectured on “Communicating Science” at the Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences school of medicine.
• November 9, 2017: Presented at the People-Powered Publishing Conference in Chicago with WNYC Project Manager, Elaine Chen.
• November 6, 2017: Presented at the American Public Health Association conference in Atlanta, on “How to make public health matter in media” and put together this list of some of our favorite public health stories aired on public radio (and podcasts!)
• October 23-24, 2017: Presented at the Google News Lab / Digital Identities workshop in London and Dublin.
• October 5, 2017: I was interviewed by the lovely Abhay Adhikari from Digital Identities for their Google News workshop.
• May 11, 2017: Live on the Leonard Lopate Show with Kai Wright, talking about climate change and the denial of scientific fact.
• March 29, 2017: Guest lecturer on science radio journalism at the Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences department.
• January 5, 2017: Guest on the Brian Lehrer Show with NYU’s Rumi Chunara, to explain how we solved the mystery of who got everyone sick at work aka Flu-dunnit?
• November 8, 2016: Our story on the election, cortisol and stress was featured on air on The Takeaway and the Leonard Lopate Show, and in the podcast, the United States of Anxiety.
• June 28, 2016: Werked It. Put it down, flipped it and reversed it. Presented at Werk It, a festival that brings together women from around the world who host, produce, edit, sound design and love podcasts. I played Interview Roulette with Wendy Zukerman (Science Vs) and Melissa Block (NPR).
• June 16, 2016: NPR Live: A conversation about mental health in the age of sharing with Dr Ali Mattu.
• April 21, 2016: Guest lecturer at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
• December 18, 2015: Guest lecturer for Full Spectrum.
• April 1st, 2015: Appeared on WOSU’s talk radio program, All Sides, to discuss Living Cancer series.
• February 6th, 2015: Appeared on WNET Channel 13’s MetroFocus to discus Living Cancer series.
• August 12th, 2014: Guest lecturer for NYU class on capital and the city.
• July 7th, 2014: Guest lecturer for Full Spectrum.
• June 6th, 2014: Guest on NBC New York’s “The Debrief with David Ushery” to discuss WNYC’s coverage of the Bronx.
• June 4th, 2014: Guest on the Brian Lehrer Show to discuss supportive housing.
• December 16 – 20, 2013: Lead instructor for the Full Spectrum Storytelling intensive, an audio-first workshop designed by the Association for Independents in Radio (AIR) in partnership with UnionDocs.
• November 22, 2013: Guest lecturer for the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
• October 19, 2013: Performed live at Union Docs, Stories You Can’t Tell on the Radio.
• April 26, 2013: Losers, Dreamers, & People on a Quest: Choosing the Right Subjects panelist for the American Society for Journalists and Authors conference.
• October 22, 2012: Pimp Your Podcast panel at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, with Adam Davidson (Planet Money), Ashley Milne-Tyte (The Broad Experience), Mia Lobel (Distillations), and Jim Colgan (SoundCloud).