Center for Urban Research and Learning, Loyola University Chicago. Fall 2018.
Selection of Presentations
Invited Presentations
2016-2021
2021. Speaker. “The Importance of Black Women’s Voices.” Opening presentation for Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration: Impact Over Intent: Conversation with Mikki Kendall. February 2021.
2020. ThinkBig Community Conversation//Reclaiming Cognitive Bandwidth. Stark County and Kent State University. October 2020.
2018. “Spatial Injustices: Racial Segregation & the Ironic Mobile Barriers of Public Transportation.” The Sociology Research Colloquium & ODI 3D Series. Illinois Wesleyan University. November 2018.
2018. "Wildin' Out and the Privilege of Whiteness: Social Freedoms, Public Spaces, and Mobilities." Center for Urban Research and Learning. Friday Morning Seminar. Loyola University Chicago. October 2018.
2016. “Unequal Spaces: Reproducing Inequalities Through Public Transit.” Presenter and participant. Ethnographies in Mass Transportation in a Globalized World Workshop. New York University - Center for International Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences. NYC, NY. May 2016.
2016. “The Party Train or the Restrained Train: Differentiated “Good Times” on Public Transit.” Northwestern University Ethnography Workshop. Evanston, IL. May 2016.
2015. “A Hot Cyber Mess: Transforming public transportation into classed, raced, and gendered spaces through the virtual world.” Kent State University at Stark Faculty Forum. North Canton, OH. April 2015.
Conference Presentations
2016 - 2021
2021. “The Mobility Effect: COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter in Chicago.” Transport Chicago Annual Conference. University of Illinois at Chicago. June 2021.
2020. Accepted. “Feeling at Home: Black Experiences in Chain and Non-chain Stores and Restaurants in Downtown Chicago.” Presenting with Kelly Moore. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. San Francisco, CA. Conference cancelled due to global pandemic.
2020. Accepted. “The Truth, the Stoop and the Paint: More than a Neighborhood in Disarray.” Presenting with Richard Lofton, Jr. Annual Meeting of the Urban Affairs Association. Washington, D.C. Conference cancelled due to global pandemic.
2020. Accepted. “The Impact of Racial Poverty on African American Students.” Presenting with Richard Lofton, Jr. Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. San Francisco, CA. Conference cancelled due to global pandemic.
2019. “Social Promises of Education: Parents, Schools, and the Geographies of Success” with Richard Lofton, Jr. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. New York City, NY.
2019. “The Obduracy of Mobile Boundaries: Maintaining Racial Residential Segregation Through Transit” with Michael O. Emerson. Urban Affairs Association Annual Conference. Los Angeles, CA.
2019. “Visualizing Racial Residential Segregation Through Public Transportation” with Johannes Buerger and Michael O. Emerson. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C.
2018. “Time to Leave the Inner-City: Reshaping the Discourse in Recognition of the Exo-City.” Urban Affairs Association Annual Conference. Toronto, Canada.
2017. “Madea, Harambe & the Black Church: Resisting Racist Narratives Through Comedy and Online Culture.” Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Montreal, Canada.
2017. “Teaching Mills with Jazz Hands” with Kyle Woolley. Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Montreal, Canada.
2017. “Differentiated Spaces: Stuck at the Crossroads of Spatial and Mobile Inequality.” Urban Affairs Association Annual Conference. Minneapolis, MN.
2016. “Some People Are Too Sensitive”: Quasi-covert but clearly overt racial aggressions on Facebook.” Annual Meeting of Midwest Sociological Society and North Central Sociological Association. Chicago, IL.