Upcoming
NOV 27 2023 - Keynote speaker AFRICHI HCI Conference. EASTERN CAPE PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA.
Past Invited Talks
October 21, 2022 - Keynote speaker and Transition Design seminar lead AIGA Conference 2022: Reconnect. SEATTLE, WA.
JUNE 9, 2022 - Invited to give graduation keynote University of Washington HCDE Department, SEATTLE, WA.
MAY, 2022 - Podcast guest, Recommoning with Dimeji Onafuwa. Commoning Design & Designing Commons. COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
MAY 6, 2022 - Design After Capitalism. A conversation with Matt Wizinsky. Carnegie Mellon School of Design PITTSBURGH, PA
FEB 9, 2022 - Pluriversal Design. Lecture at Interaction Design Masters program, ArtCenter College of Design. PASADENA, CA
MAY 5, 2021 - Invited Speaker/Panelist, Designing In Dark Times Desis Dialogues. Parsons at the New School. NEW YORK, NY
APRIL 23, 2021 - Panelist Event, Rethinking Design Thinking in the Pluriverse. Northeastern University College of Arts, Media & Design. BOSTON, MA
APRIL 6, 2021 - Invited Panelist, What Should A PhD in Design Be? North American PHD by Design Symposium. Hosted by New York University. NEW YORK, NY
APRIL 5, 2021 - Invited Radio Guest, CBC On the Coast with Gloria Macarenko. CANADA
FEB 25, 2021 - Interview, Dimeji Designs a World Where Everyone is Represented. Emily Carr University. VANCOUVER, CANADA
FEB 15, 2021 - Invited Speaker, Design Lecture Series. Talk here Carnegie Mellon University, School of Design. PITTSBURGH, PA
December 11, 2020 - Invited Speaker. Transition Design Salon. Speculative Futures. AUSTIN TX/NE
Nov 29 2020 - Panelist. Open Source Summit: Tangible Actions to Achieve D&I in Corporations & Communities. The Linux Foundation. (EUROPE)
September 25, 2020 - Invited speaker. Black in UX (podcast). University of Washington HCD School. SEATTLE, WA
July 13, 2020 - Invited Speaker. Designers as Allies. Service Design Pittsburgh.
June 16, 2020 - Keynote Speaker (with Jabe Bloom), Recommoning Communities. OpenShift Commons Gathering.
March 3-5, 2020 - Invited Speaker, ConveyUX Conference. SEATTLE, WA
Feb 6, 2020 - Invited Speaker, Emily Carr University. Pluriversal Approach to UX. VANCOUVER, BC
July 10, 2019 - Moderator, The Responsibility of Design: Transition Design Workshop. SEATTLE, WA
April 15-18, 2019 - Invited Speaker, Reviewer & Panelist, Emily Carr University. VANCOUVER, CANADA
April 10, 2019 - Event Co-organizer, The Responsibility of Design with Albert Shum, CVP @ Microsoft. SEATTLE, WA
November 2018 - International Data Week 2018. BOTSWANA, SOUTH AFRICA (submitted)
October 5-6, 2018 - Celebrating Commons Scholarship Conference at Georgetown University. WASHINGTON, DC
October 12-13, 2018 - Workshop on Privacy as Knowledge Commons Governance at Villanova University. PHILADELPHIA, PA
September 20 2018 - PANELIST, Digitally Engaged Learning (DEL) 2018 conference in Toronto, Canada. Topic on Antiracist Tactics for Digitally Engaged Teaching and Learning. TORONTO, CANADA
June 20, 2018. - ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS 2018) at Facebook and The Tech Museum of Innovation. MENLO PARK, CA
May 16, 2018 - Panelist, PDX Design Research Group on UX Research Challenges. PORTLAND, OR
Sept 2017 - Google Span 2017 Conference (Pittsburgh, PA) - Speaker. PITTSBURGH, PA
Nov 2016 - Friendtorship workshop in Portland communities at Portland State University. PORTLAND, OR
Nov 2016 - Invited speaker, By Design or By Disaster - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. BOZEN-BOLZANO, ITALY
June 2016 - PhD By Design 2016 Conference: Session Chair & Workshop co-organizer on Alternative Economies. BRIGHTON, UK
Jan 2016 - Creative Agitator, Sustainability Traceability Lab with Future of Fish. SEATTLE, WA
Past Workshops and Presentations
June 2017 - NORDES 2017 Conference - Design + Power (Oslo, Norway): "Design Allyship and Decoloniality" Conversation & Workshop with Jabe Bloom. OSLO, NORWAY
Nov 2016 - Intersectional Perspectives on Design, Politics & Power (Malmo Sweden): Allyship & Decoloniality. MALMO, SWEDEN
Oct 2016 - Privileged Participation: Allying with Decoloniality with Jabe Bloom and Teju Cole. PITTSBURGH, PA
June 2016 -Design Research Society 2016 Conference (Brighton UK): Conversations - "Design & Symbolic Violence". BRIGHTON, UK
Feb 2016 - Northside Homeownership Workshop in Northside, Pittsburgh PA (sponsored by Buhl Foundation). PITTSBURGH, PA