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2025

• Sinister Wisdom: More Love!: Lesbian and Feminist Publishing in the 2000s and 2010s, panelist (WATCH)

2024

• Craft & Brag with Shitty Craft Club at Junior High LA, facilitator
• National Young Feminist Leadership Conference: Digital Organizing Workshop, panelist (COVERAGE)
• A Zoom of Our Own: Private Equity’s Secret Plunder, moderator (WATCH)

2023

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• The Jane Club: A Very Jane Writing Retreat, co-hosted with Heather Hach Hearne (MORE HERE)
• Ms. Magazine: The Feminist Fight Forward: Lessons from 50 Years of Ms. at the Skirball Cultural Center (COVERAGE)
• Ms. Magazine: 50 Years of Ms. at Vroman’s Bookstore (WATCH)
• Ms. Magazine: 50 Years of Ms. at The Hammer Museum (WATCH | COVERAGE)

• Ms. Magazine: Claremont McKenna College Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum: 50 Years of Ms. (WATCH | COVERAGE)
• Ms. Magazine: The Feminist Fight Forward: 50 Years of Ms. Magazine at Smith College (WATCH)
• The Jane Club: Writing Your Next Chapter Writer’s Retreat, co-hosted with Alisha Gladdis
• The Jane Club: Fertile Ground Writer’s Retreat, co-hosted with Holly Payberg-Torroija
• The Jane Club: Fireside Chat with WARRIOR PRINCESS STRIKE BACK co-authors Sarah Eagle Heart and Emma Eagle Heart-White (WATCH)
• The Jane Club: Fireside Chat with PERMISSION TO SPEAK author Samara Bay (WATCH)

• The Jane Club: Fireside Chat with MONEY AND LOVE Authors Myra Strober & Abby Davisson (WATCH)
• The Jane Club: New Year New Jane (Producer)
• The Jane Club: Fireside Chat with THE APOLOGY Writer & Director Alison Star Locke (WATCH)
• The Jane Club: Start More Than You Can Finish: Q&A with Author Becky Blades (WATCH)

2022

• The Jane Club: Fireside Chat with ON BELONGING Author Kim Samuel (WATCH)
• The Jane Club: Fireside Chat with Hailey Wierengo and Desta Tedros Reff, Executive Producers of A League of Their Own (WATCH)
• The Jane Club: Fireside Chat with THERAPY ISN’T JUST FOR WHITE PEOPLE Author Kiara Imani (WATCH)
• The Jane Club: Fireside Chat with Katie Aselton (WATCH)
• The Jane Club: Fireside Chat with Christie Hunter Arscott (WATCH)
• National Women’s History Museum Sundays @ Home: 50 Years of Ms. Magazine (WATCH)

• An Economy of Our Own: Digital Possibilities (REPLAY + RESOURCES)
• A Radical Gathering: Economic Solutions that Wage Life, Not War
• See Jane Work: Jane Brag Live Session Leader
• The Jane Club: Fireside Chat with Alyssa Shelasky (WATCH)
• Mining a Moment in Time Writing Retreat: Facilitator
• The Jane Club: Women, the Web, and the Future of Democracy with Marie Tessier (WATCH)
• New Year, New Jane: Producer

2021

• The Meteor: Advancing Indigenous Justice w/ Return to the Heart Foundation (WATCH)
• The Jane Club One-Day Writing Retreat: Facilitator
• The Jane Club: UNPLANNED PARENTHOOD: Fireside Chat with Artist and Activist Michelle Hartney (WATCH)
• The Jane Club: Sophie Santos in Conversation with Carmen Rios (WATCH)
• The Meteor: Real Talk About Disability Rights w/ Emily Ladau and Liz Plank (WATCH)
• A Sunday of One’s Own Writing Retreat: Facilitator
• Lift As We Rise Summit: Producer, Moderator of COLLECTIVE CARE session with Sally Kohn (WATCH)
• The Jane Club: Fireside Chat with Author Kimberly Dark (WATCH)
• The Jane Club: Fireside Chat with Amanda Montell, Author of Cultish (WATCH)

• JANE BRAG LIVE! with Carmen Rios (WATCH)
• 21 for ’21: Social Media Lead + Chat Concierge
• The Meteor x re-inc: Changing the Game in Tech w/ Fig O’Reilly and Meghan Kling (WATCH)
• An Economy of Our Own: Envisioning Feminist Economic Futures (WATCH)
• New Year, New Jane Summit: Producer

2020

• Vote Feminist Parade Co-Host (WATCH)

• #Feminism: Gender & the 2020 Election Symposium at Northeastern University (REMARKS)
• Reading + Q&A with Author Susan Rubin
• The Jane Club: Fireside Chat with Sally Kohn (WATCH)
• The Jane Club: Fireside Chat with Bust Co-Founder Marcelle Karp (WATCH)
• #WomenPowerVote Conversation w/ Women’s Action for New Directions and the Women’s Legislators Lobby (CLIPS)
• NWMAF Conference 2020: Social Media Strategy 101 Training
• The Jane Club: Fireside Chat with “Mrs. America” EP and Director Anna Boden (WATCH)
• Staying in the Game: IG Live with Adrienne Lawrence about Sexual Harassment (WATCH)
• The Art of Equal Pay Conversation Series Host + Emcee
• FORWARD by The Riveter: Fireside Chat with Michele Pred about The Art of Equal Pay (WATCH)
• Wine and Impact Series on “Intersectional Feminism and Your Power”
• Santa Barbara International Film Festival: Post-Screening Q&A with Pandora’s Box team

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2019

• National Sexual Assault Conference: Keynote Conversation with “Surviving R. Kelly” Filmmaker dream hampton (WATCH)

• #MsBookClub: Cocktails and Conversation with Nicole Dennis-Benn and Carmen Rios (WATCH)
• Diesel Bookstore Author Series: Live Conversation with Tracy Strauss
• Religious Intrusion in Healthcare Discussion Panelist
• “LAS SANDINISTAS!” Filmmaker Q&A with Ms., World Channel, PBS (WATCH)
• Feminism in Academia and the Workplace: UCLA American Association of University Women Conference
• #MsBookClub: Cocktails and Conversation with Cherríe Moraga and Carmen Rios
• Bold Voices Disrupting Rape Culture: Roll Red Roll Opening Week Q&A with Filmmaker Nancy Schwartzman
• Period. End of Sentence. FYC Screening: Conversation with Director Reyka Zebtachi
• Merrimack College: Forging Your Feminist Future: A Conversation with Carmen Rios (WATCH)

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2018

• National Women’s Studies Association Conference: “Amplifying Feminist Voices” Moderator
• National Sexual Assault Conference: “Social Media for Social Change” Presenter
• National Young Feminist Leadership Conference: Organizer, Panelist

2017

• Ms. at 45: Gloria Steinem in Conversation with Ms. Writers and Editors
• National Women’s Studies Association Conference: “Writing for the Popular Press” Panelist
• Democracy Wise Series at Vroman’s Bookstore: “Navigating Media” Panelist
• The Second Queer Internet Studies Conference Panelist (WATCH)
• National Young Feminist Leadership Conference: Organizer, Panelist, Moderator, Plenary Speaker

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2016

• A-Camp 2016: Workshop Leader, Panelist, Moderator
• National Young Feminist Leadership Conference: Organizer, Panelist, Moderator, Plenary Speaker

2015

• University of Wisconsin: “Queer and Feminist Media” Panelist
• A-Camp 2015: Workshop Leader, Panelist, Moderator
• National Young Feminist Leadership Conference: Organizer, Panelist, Moderator

2014

• FORCE “Consent Klatch!” Panelist
• A-Camp 2014: Workshop Leader, Panelist, Moderator
• National Young Feminist Leadership Conference: Organizer, Panelist, Moderator

2013

• National Sexual Assault Conference: Keynote Speaker, Presenter
• A-Camp October: Workshop Leader, Panelist
• A-Camp May: Workshop Leader, Panelist
• The Archival is Political: Preserving Women’s History at the Sallie Bingham Center (Merle Hoffman, Eleanor Smeal, Carmen Rios and Jaclyn Friedman in Conversation)

2012

• A-Camp September: Panelist
• A-Camp April: Moderator, Panelist
• Momentum Conference: Panelist
• Robyn Matthias Student Research Conference: Presenter
• Chesapeake American Studies Association Conference: Panelist

2011

• Slutwalk DC: Speaker, Media Organizer

2010

• SPARK Summit: “Girl Activists Speak Out” Panelist