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Public Speaking, Workshops & Events

In addition to Resilience Toolkit coaching offerings, I am available as a workshop facilitator, public speaker, creative writer and performer.

I have experience in a range of subjects from belonging, pluriculturalism, Latinx leadership, connected presence and burnout prevention.

My experiences inform my somatic work. I can provide unique, culturally appropriate, LGBTQI affirming workshops to your team/org.

See below for examples of topics I can speak to plus highlights of past workshops and speaking engagements offered in English, Spanish or bilingual.

For organization requests, I can provide my Curriculum Vitae.

  • ​In conversation with Caro De Robertis for their new book: So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color. May 20, 2025, 7 p.m. PT. Powell's City of Books. 1005 W. Burnside Street. Portland, OR.

  • An interactive creative writing workshop

    An interactive workshop on belonging

    Personal Narrative as Mixtape: Releasing Secret Tracks On The Album of Your Life

    On redefining authenticity and executive presence for emerging leaders of color

    On supporting mutlti-hyphenate and multidisciplinary creatives

    On connected presence on and off the stage for performers and public speakers

    On navigating liminal spaces as a mixed race person

    On supporting HSP’s (Highly Sensitive Persons)

    On burnout prevention in workplaces

  • I am a 2024 - 2025 teaching fellow for Literary Arts Writers In The Schools (WITS) program.

    I hold an MFA in Creative Writing from Randolph College as a Blackburn Fellow (2024).

    I have experience as a creative writing teacher for incarcerated youth through InsideOut Writers in Los Angeles, CA.

  • “Somatic Sometimes for Writers: Nervous Systems for People Who Create With Words,” a virtual workshop on Sunday March 2, 2025 at 10 a.m. PT, for the Randolph MFA community. Registration required.

    “Somatic Sometimes for Mixed Community,” a virtual workshop on Sunday November 10, 2024 at 11 a.m. PT, available through a collaboration with Mixed in America's membership program.

    "Somatic Sometimes," in person workshop at Atrium PDX, Breathe Building, August 24, 2024, 10 a.m. PT, Portland, Oregon.

    “Personal Narrative as Mixtape: Releasing Secret Tracks On The Album of Your Life” September 5, 2023, offered virtual to approximately 15 people in collaboration with Glassless Minds & MiraCosta College.

    “Centered In My Power: On Redefining Executive Presence and Authenticity: A bilingual Poderosa Voz pop-up workshop” March 2018, offered in-person to 25 people, Portland, OR.

    “Pertenezco: I Belong” A bilingual three-part creative writing workshop to delve into migration, displacement, pluri-cultural perspectives, the poetics of epigenetics and the resilience of humanity.

    November 1, 2015 in the 9th annual international SIGNO Memoria y Identidad  conference; Piriapolis, Uruguay, South America.

    February 18th-19th, 2016 in Washington State University’s 12th Annual International Globalization, Diversity and Education conference: Moving the Dialogue on Race, Culture, and Equity forward in Education; Airway Heights, WA.

    August 26, 2016 in ORCHWA (Oregon Community Health Workers Alliance) 2016 annual conference; Gresham, OR.

    October 2016 in UNICA’s Voces de la Comunidad 2016 annual conference; Portland, OR.

  • Co-facilitator at NSAC (National Sexual Assault Conference) for Latinx Leadership Roundtable, August 30, 2018, Anaheim, CA.

    Presenter on Prevent Connect national webinar September 20, 2017 on “Addressing the Roots: Preventing Multiple Forms of Violence through Shared Underlying Factors”

    Panelist as subject matter expert at Oregon Sexual Assault Task Force conference on October 10, 2016, Portland, Oregon.

    Invited to co-lead a national webinar on violence as a public health issue for “The Movement” in September 2016 specifically to elevate racial justice equity lens, virtual.

    Panelist and subject matter expert to represent violence as a public health issue at Senator Wyden’s Gun Violence round table discussion held on August 11, 2016.

    Panelist on “From Silos to Community Alliances”  panel on October 4, 2014 at Liberation Based Healing Conference, Lewis and Clark University, Portland, OR.