Presenter] “What Do Black Girls Need?,” National Women’s Studies Association, Cincinnati, OH, November 2013 [Round table organizer & moderator] “Segregation as a Model for 21st Century Social Justice?,” Critical Ethnic Studies Association, Chicago, IL, September 2013 [Panel organizer & presenter] Health and Sexuality,” 2nd Annual Museum of Contemporary Art, Women on the Rise! Girls Summit, Miami, FL, May 2013 [moderator] “Body of the State: Racial Politics and the Staging of Condoleezza Rice’s and Michelle Obama’s Bodies,” American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 2012 [Panel organizer & Presenter] “What Happens to Africana Studies If You Put Black Women’s Studies at the Center National Women’s Studies Association, Atlanta, GA, November 2011 [Roundtable organizer & Moderator] “Toward a Self-Love Incestuous Desire and Transnational Belonging in Toni Morrison's Paradise,” Religious Crossings in Literature, Art and Practice symposium, Ohio State University, April 2011 [Invited Presenter] “Canvas of Desire”: a Roundtable by Women of Color on Pedagogy and Difference," Critical Ethnic Studies and the Future of Genocide, University of California, Riverside, March 2011 a Man, If You Can: A Post-Nationalist Reading of Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep,” Fall 2010 Workshop for Early Career Scholars, by the Scholars' Network for Masculinity and the Well-being of African American Men, Princeton, NJ, November 2010 [Presenter] “Reading a New Narrative on Black Masculinity in the 21st Century,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, November 2010 [Roundtable organizer & Presenter] “Racial Democracy, Propaganda, and the Transhemispheric Imagination in Danzy Senna’s Caucasia,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., November 2009 [Presenter] “Still Strong?: Re-membering and Redefining the Strongblackwoman in the 21st Century,” National Women’s Studies Association, Atlanta, GA, November 2009 [Roundtable Organizer & Presenter] “When and Where She Exits: Post-National Challenges in Black Feminist Criticism,” MLA Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA, December 2008 [Panel Organizer & Presenter] “The House that Jim Crow Built: Reinterpreting the Southern Roots of Nat Love,” Society for
Research on Race, Gender, and Ethnicity, 17 October 2002. INVITED INTERVIEWS OSU Alumni Magazine, “1968 in Perspective,” forthcoming The Cut, Race, and Modeling, April 2018 OSU Lantern, Panther’s’ Record-Breaking Premiere Makes Its Way to Gateway,” 14 February 2018. Jennifer Swann, “The Complete History of ‘Becky with the Good Hair,’ from the 1700s to ‘Lemonade,’” Splinternews.com, 4 May 2016. OSU Lantern, “WexArts Shines Light on Black Independent Filmmakers,” 4 February 2016. Columbus Parent Magazine, Terrific Teachers,” August 2012. “The Backyard Show,” a Radio Disney AM 1260 in Cleveland program, 28 January 2011 (scheduled to air on February 13, 2011). PUBLIC WRITING We Was Girls Together…: Reflections on Seeing ‘Girls Trip’, NewBlackMan blogspot, July 24, 2017. “Mother to Son”: on Fences and Climbin’ Crystal Stairs, NewBlackMan blogspot, February 28, 2017. “Black Lives and the Conundrum of Unimaginable Grace,” LSU Press Blog, July 26, 2016. “Birthing Lives Matter: A Meditation on Staying Woke,” NewBlackMan blogspot, June 28, 2016. “’Cause I Slay’: A Beyoncé Timeline for February 2016,” NewBlackMan blogspot, February 11, 2016. “Witnessing While White and the Violence of Silence,” NewBlackMan blogspot, June 8, 2015. “Eyes Wide Open: Kehinde Wiley’s Penetrating Plea for Grace,” NewBlackMan blogspot, May 22, 2015 “#Hereforcookie: Race, Empire & Hip-Hop Reparations,” NewBlackMan blogspot, April 22, 2015. “Race and Hollywood: Is or White Really the Epitome of White Racism?”, NewBlackMan blogspot, February 22, 2015. “I’m Not Your Superwoman, But I Can Have It All,” NewBlackMan blogspot, February 12,