in the wild

Presenter

Clodagh x MAWD’s Elliot March in Conversation in SoHo, Moderator (2024)

Mauro Porcini’s The Human Side of Innovation Book Launch, Moderator (2022)

SoHo Design District x Industrial Designers Society of America, “Designing for Wellbeing” Moderator, featuring Aruliden and Karim Rashid (2022)

Clever/Slice, on “Taking Action”: methods, research, and action to approach systematic racism, reflection, reparation, and healing (2020)

Heaven To Earth: racial reconciliation program through The Oaks Church Williamsburg, Lead Facilitator (2020)

School of Visual Arts, “Precarious”, Graduate Thesis Symposium: Style on the Inside - understanding power dynamics within the penal system through clothing (2019)

Fashion Institute of Technology, Presidential Scholars Alumni Panel (2016)

University of Texas Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, Annual Conference: 20th Century Media of U.S. Latinx Communities - Rhetoric From Without and Within the Barrio (2014)

Press

Texas Monthly, RF. Alvarez Paints Texas in a New Light (2024)

Ear Hustle x Articles of Interest, Contributor to The Prison Uniform (or “Articles of Hustle”) Podcast (2023)

Architectural Digest, Should You Hire a Copywriter? (2022)

ICFF x WantedDesign CLOSEUP, “North American Design Studios” Panelist (2020)

Educator

Parsons School of Design, Guest Lecturer in Portfolio, Publication and Dynamic Media (invited by instructor Madeleine Parsons, 2024)

Pratt Institute, Visiting Instructor of Branding & Messaging, within a framework of research, analysis, process and presentation (2023)

The Level Up Project, “Defining Brand Identity” Workshop Lead (2021)

School of Visual Arts, “Organizing Research”, presented in the MA Design Research Thesis Development workshop (2020)

School of Visual Arts, “Constructing a Thesis”, prepared for the MA Design Research incoming class (2020)

Guest Critic

New York City College of Technology: Intro to Architecture final reviews (instructor Arie Salomon Betech, 2024)

Pratt Institute: “Writing for Interior Design” Visual Essay presentations (instructor Pierre Alexandre de Looz, 2023)

School of Visual Arts: “Profile Writing” Design Research, Writing and Criticism MA program (instructor Adam Harrison Levy, 2022)

Parsons School of Design: School of Constructed Environments Product Design BFA Capstone presentations (2021)

School of Visual Arts: “Cultural Theory: Personal Effects” Design Research, Writing and Criticism MA program (instructor Pierre Alexandre de Looz, 2020)

The New School: "Portfolio, Publication and Dynamic Media" Product Design BFA, School of Constructed Environments (instructor Jean Lin, 2018, 2019)

The New School: "Defining Place” First-year elective, School of Constructed Environments (instructor Sam Bennett, 2019) 

Artistic Advisor

Subject Bureaux’s Gestures at Head Hi, Co-Creative Director and Co-Producer of live reading and performance (2024)

Amanda Gladu, painter and costume designer (2023)

Aneta Zeleznikova, Love Me Tender book (2021); launch of Meme zine (2023)

Subject Bureaux for Standard Arts, In and From and Through copywriting for 200 Fifth Avenue (2022)

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Task Force, Female Design Council founding team (2020)

Jaé Joseph x Parajumpers (2019)

Brandon Wickenkamp, Midwestern Acres at Oskaloosa Art Center (2019)