2017
•Women in Documentary Film- Human Rights Film Festival – Buenos Aires, Argentina
•International Distribution- Firelight Media Producers Fellows Program – Durham, NC
2016
•The Google Seminars on Gender and Racial Gaps in Film and Tech – Miami Film Festival
•Women in Documentary Film- Femcine Film Festival – Santiago, Chile
•Supporting Your Doc Habit – New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT)- New York
2015
•Making a Film + Making a Living: Sustainability in the Film Industry – New Orleans Film Festival
•Rebels Don’t Wait for Permission: Women in Documentary – 59th International Leipzig Festival – Germany
2014
•Sisters in Cinema Archive Project – Mellon Fellows Conference – Atlanta, GA
•Sisters in the Life Book Project – Pre-Print – Duke University – Durham, NC
2013
•CJ Summit, Collaboration Nation & From the Archives, Citizen Jane Film Festival- Columbia, MO
•Creating Change: The New Black Outreach Workshop – Atlanta, GA
2012
•Black Independent Cinema Before and After Pariah – American Studies Association, San Juan, PR
•Short Films of Cheryl Dunye — Duke University, Durham, NC
•Cabin in the Sky with Steve Willis —Vance Chavis Branch of the Greensboro, NC Public Library
•Looking Forward — Firelight Media and P.O.V’s Sustaining a Career as a Public Media Maker, NY, NY
2011
•Recovering Lesbian History – Smashing History Conference, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
•Behind the Screen: The Making, Marketing and Distribution of Daughters of the Dust – Keynote Speaker – The
Avery Research Center two-day symposium and art show celebrating the Black Art aesthetic of filmmaker Julie Dash,
Charleston, SC
•Entrepreneurship Panel Moderator- Leadership Empowerment Conference, Bennett College
•The African Diaspora Film Festival at the Witherspoon Cinema at North Carolina State University
•Creating Your Legacy: Path to Success: Competitive Edge Filmmakers Challenge Tour, NC A&T
Visiting Artist : Black Women in China in Shanghai, The Caribbean Association in China – Shanghai, Alcott High School in Chicago
2010
•Black Women Filmmakers – The Women’s Film Festival, Brown University
•Presented a series of workshops and lectures – The School of Theatre and Film at Arizona State University
• Grace Holt Lecture – Parallel Praxis: Hollywood and Black Independent Cinema Today – Univ. of Illinois
2009
•Making Peace With Making Money – Fire & Ink Cotillion – Austin, TX
•New Media Entrepreneurs – Faculty Lecture Series – Bennett College – Greensboro, NC
2008
•Independent Film Distribution – IFP Producer’s Conference – Chicago
•Self-Distribution – Naperville International Film Festival – Naperville, IL
•Going it Alone – Sundance Film Festival – Park City, Utah
•Internet Distribution – Antioch College – Yellow Springs, OH
•Self-Distribution Seminar – IFP – Chicago
•Earthecho & The Warped Tour – Digi Fest & AFI Int’l Film Festival – Los Angeles
2007
•Independent Distribution Panel Moderator – Fusion Festival – Los Angeles
2006
•Crash: A Viewing and Discussion – University of Chicago
Visiting Artist – University of Illinois-Urbana, Northwestern University, Governor’s State University, Middlebury College
2004
•Sisters in Cinema – Television Critics Week – Los Angeles
•Fundraising and Distribution – Webster University – St. Louis
•SistahCinema: African Women in Filmmaking – Denver Pan African Film Fest
•Queer Filmmakers of Color – Queer Lounge – Sundance Film Festival
•Where’s Her Voice?: Black Women Filmmakers and Hip-Hop Culture -Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture – University of Chicago
•Brother Outsider – University of Chicago
Visiting Artist – Temple, University of Deleware, SUNY- Albany, Columbia College, Chicago, University of Rochester,Kenwood Academy, DePaul University, UCSD, Young Chicago Authors, Northwestern
2003
•Conformity and Resistance: Writing for Film – National Black Writer’s Conference, Brooklyn, New York
•Frameline’s Close-Up: Interview with Cheryl Dunye – Castro Theater, San Francisco
•Hindsight is 20/20: Producer’s Tell How They Would Do it All Over Again -Cleveland Int’l Film Festival
•Reaching an Audience With Your Independent Film – Cleveland International Film Festival
•Her Stories: Issues for Women in Documentary Film-Columbia College Chicago
•Is There a Need For Women’s Media (Anymore)? -Women in the Director’s Chair Film Festival
•African American Women in Feature Filmmaking – African Film Festival, Los Angeles
•Visiting Artist -Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia College Chicago, Cleveland State, Indiana University, Bloomington
2002
•Exercises in Leadership -IBM Gay and Lesbian Leadership Conference, NY
•Financial Foundations for Filmmakers -Women in the Director’s Chair. Chicago
•Getting Your Work Out Into the World – AIVF and The Video Databank, Chicago
•Redefining Media Images of Black Women: A Personal Journey – Smith College
•Women Directors of Color – African American Women in Cinema Conference, NY
•Film Panel – Gwendolyn Brooks Black Writer’s Conference
•Visiting Artist – Vassar College, Smith College, Antioch University, Ohio State University, York University, Northwestern University
2001
•Deliverance: The Business of Distribution – Persistent Vision Conference, San Francisco
•Climbing Out of the Girl Ghetto – Lake Placid Film Festival
•Roles for Women: Indie and Beyond – Boston International Womens Film Festival
•Producers Forum – Atlanta Film & Video Festival
•The State of Black Independent Cinema – Sundance Film Festival
•Reel Women: A Global Body of Work – Purdue University, Calumet
2000
•Racing the Real – Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Chicago
•Writing African American Women into Film History – University of Wisconsin, Madison
•From Words Into Pictures: A Seminar on Writing the Independent Film – Wisconsin Film Festival, Madison
•Celluloid History: Documentary Strategies in Films on Queer History: The Future of the Queer Past: A Transnational History Conference, University of Chicago