Speaking gigs
I am available to speak in person or remotely. Reach me through the Contact page. Topics:
- Title IX in history and today
- Plug-in electric vehicles
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
Tuesday, February 7, 2023 — I’m honored to be invited by Iowa State University’s Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics in Ames, Iowa to lecture about Title IX as the Mary Louise Smith Chair in Women and Politics. I’ll speak in the Durham Great Hall of the Memorial Union and sign books in the South Ballroom of the Memorial Union. Both events are free and open to the public.
Previous speaking engagements
November 18, 2022 — I visited Walls of Books in Pharma, Ohio to sign copies of 37 Words and celebrate the end of my month-long book tour.
November 18, 2022 — I stopped in Perrysburg, Ohio to sign books at Gathering Volumes.
November 15, 2022— I joined Dr. Angel Cabrera, president of the Georgia Institute of Technology, for a public conversation about Title IX and equity in higher education, part of his Conversations with Cabrera series.
November 12, 2022 — The National Women’s Studies Association conference hosted me for two events in Minneapolis. First was a panel titled “Women’s Politics: Finding a Way Out of No Way,” and then at a Feminist Author Showcase.
November 11, 2022— I joined University of Minnesota Professor Emerita Mary Jo Kane at SubText Books in St. Paul, MN for conversation about my book.
November 4, 2022 — Traveling to Skylark Books in Columbia, MO was an excellent stop in my book tour.
November 3, 2022 — It was a pleasure to speak and sign copies of 37 Words at Left Bank Books in St. Louis – thanks for having me! Check out a video of why talk here!
October 28, 2022 — Northwestern University invited me to participate on a panel for their three-day conference, “Title IX at 50: Past. Present. Future?”
October 25, 2022 — Signing books at Werner Books in Erie Pennsylvania was a blast!
October 24, 2022 — I gave a presentation on Title IX and its impact at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, N.Y.
Wednesday, October 19, 2022, 1:00-2:30 p.m. Central — The University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Women in Law hosted an online conversation with me as part of their “Ex Libris” authors series. Watch it here.
July 10, 2022 — Participated in virtual panel about Title IX and athletics for Tel Aviv University in Israel.
June 23, 2022 — Title IX’s 50th birthday! I met with members of the Association of Title IX Administrators (ATIXA) to celebrate. Read details here. Watch a 30-second promo video with moi here.
June 22 — Co-lead a zoom presentation with Lucy Jane Bledsoe for the residents of Rossmoor, Walnut Creek, Calif.
June 14, 2022 — Spoke with NWLC President Fatima Goss Graves, civil rights lawyer Pamela Price, and End Rape on Campus Executive Director Kenyora Parham at the National Women’s Law Center’s Title IX 50th Anniversary event.
June 9, 2022 — Joined Lucy Jane Bledsoe, author of the new Young Adult novel No Stopping Us Now, in conversation with teenage student activist Lily J. in a virtual event hosted by Green Apple Books on the Park, San Francisco.
May 26, 2022 – A zoom presentation to the Riverside, Calif. chapter of the National Organization for Women.
May 4, 2022 – The Center for Fiction hosted a discussion with me, author Lucy Jane Bledsoe (No Stopping Us Now) and Anucha Browne, former basketball player, New York Knicks executive, and Title IX activist.
May 2022 – The Washington, D.C. chapter of the National Organization for Women interviewed me on the DC NOW podcast.
April 29, 2022 – Interviewed by the Title IX podcast.
April 2, 2022 – “Unpacking the Celebratory Narrative of Title IX,” panel presentation at the Organization of American Historians annual meeting.
March 2022 – The New York Historical Society’s Center for Women’s History & Academic Affairs posted a discussion with me and some of the earliest Title IX activists, part of its Max Conference on Women’s History.
February 2022 – “Intersectional Discrimination in the Successes or Failures of Title IX,” panel presentation at the American Historical Association annual meeting. If you registered for the 2022 conference, you can watch a video available through June of our panel session on “Fifty Years of Title IX: Evolutions in the Struggle Against Sex Discrimination in Education.”
September 9, 2021 – Speaker and moderator on a panel on “History Matters” at the annual meeting of NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists.
November 14-17, 2019 – “The Two-faced State and Title IX,” National Women’s Studies Association annual meeting, San Francisco.
June 22, 2019 – “Intersectional Activism Under Title IX,” National Coalition of Independent Scholars annual meeting, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association annual meeting, Aug. 4, 2018. I spoke about “Uppity Women, Nasty Women: From Title IX to #MeToo in Fresno, Calif.”
Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, February 24, 2016: On a live panel discussing “Today’s EV Market” for the Club’s Climate One program. Hear the podcast.
Bioneers conference, San Rafael, Calif., February 2010
Mensa conference, Reno, Nev. October 2008
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, hosted by Sierra Club, June 2008
Clean Technology and Sustainable Industries Conference and Trade Show, Boston, June 2008
CleanTech Expo, Boston, June 2008
San Francisco Public Library, West Portal Branch, March 2008
Utah Transportation Engineers Association, Salt Lake City, January 2008
International Electric Vehicle Symposium, Anaheim, Calif., December 2007
Humanist Society, Palo Alto, Calif., November 2007
University of California, Berkeley, October 2007
San Francisco Public Library, Sunset Branch, October 2007
Tucson Alternative Energy Fair, September 2007
National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, September 2007
Hybridfest, Madison, Wisc., July 21 and 22, 2007 (two talks)
American Solar Energy Society convention, Cleveland, Ohio, July 2007
Kepler’s Bookstore, Menlo Park, Calif., July 4, 2007
Google Tech Talk, Google headquarters, Mountain View, Calif. June 2007
Sierra Club, Takoma Park, Md., June 2007
Ecofest, Fairfax, Calif., June 2007
Rossmoor Engineers Club, Walnut Creek, Calif., June 26, 2007
University of California, Berkeley Center for the Built Environment, May 2007
Best To Be Green, San Francisco, May 2007
Power Up! Conference, Wenatchee, Wash., May 2007
Sierra Club Angeles Chapter, Los Angeles, May 2007
Chicago Green Festival, April 2007
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, April 2007
Copperfields Bookstore, Santa Rosa, Calif., April 2007
Working Assets (now Credo) headquarters, San Francisco, April 2007
Sierra Club headquarters, San Francisco, March 2007
Book Passage bookstore, Corte Madera, Calif., March 2007
Elliot Bay Book Co., Seattle, March 2007
EV Forum, San Luis Obispo, Calif., March 2007
San Francisco Commonwealth Club, February 2007
Peninsula Home and Garden Show, San Mateo, Calif., February 2007
Peppertree Bookstore, La Quinta, Calif., February 2007
Florida Atlantic University, February 2007
University of Central Florida, January 2007
Florida International University, January 2007
Sarasota News and Books, Sarasota, Fla., January 2007
Phoenix Electric Auto Association, Scottsdale, Ariz., January 2007
California Alternative Car Expo, December 2006
Los Angeles Green Drinks, December 2006
San Francisco Green Festival, November 2006
Mensa Regional Gathering, San Francisco, November 2006
Society of Automotive Engineers, Santa Clara, Calif., August 2006
Electric Auto Association national conference, April 2006
