2022
Making Music Librarianship More Improvisatory
Plenary Speaker, Music Library Association, 2022
What Makes a Collector? A Conversation on Collecting Sound Recordings
Invited Panelist, Association for Recorded Sound Collections, 2022
2021
Slavery, Abolition, Emancipation, and Freedom: Primary Sources from Houghton Library
Webinar Leader, OCLC Works in Progress Webinar, 2021
Cutting Room Floor: Editing Language in Time-Based Media Collections
Webinar Co-Facilitator, Association of Moving Image Archivists, 2021
Power, Resistance, and Leadership in Our Profession
Plenary Speaker, Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, ALA, 2021
The Ethics of Collecting in the 21st Century
Invited Panelist, Jay I. Kislak Symposium, University of Pennsylvania, 2021
Archiving the Invisible: Black Sonic Archives
Invited Panelist Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University, 2021
"A Picture of Slavery for Youth": Creating Young Abolitionists
Invited Roundtable Moderator, Bibliographic Society of America, 2021
Looking at Language with New Eyes: Reparative Description in Archival Collections
Invited Presenter, Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts, 2021
Self-Determined Progress and the Attucks-Gotham Publishing Company
Invited Paper Presentation, Mahindra Book History Seminar, 2021
2020
My Soul Looks Back in Wonder: Remembering Black History in the Archives
Keynote, Society of Georgia Archivists, 2020
Webinar Facilitator, Louisiana Digital Library for Data Series, 2020
Archival Silences in the Present Moment
Invited Panelist, Princeton Center for the Humanities, 2020
Race, Power, and Metadata: Whose Digital History?
Keynote, Digital Public Library of America, 2020
Black Bibliography: Dorothy Porter’s “Early American Negro Writing” at 75
Invited Panelist, Bibliographic Society of America, 2020
Webinar Facilitator, Sunshine State Digital Network Conscious Editing Series, 2020
Keynote, Society of North Carolina Archivists Annual Meeting, 2020
SAA Community Reflection on Black Lives and Archives
Invited Speaker, Society of American Archivists, 2020
2019
Archives in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Towards Discoverable Blackness
Paper Presentation, Black Portraiture[s] V: Memory and the Archive, 2019
Designing Inclusive Information Systems: From Theory to Change
Panelist, Association for Computers and the Humanities, 2019
2018
Personally Sustainable Models for Institutionally Sustainable Work
Panel Co-Chair, Digital Library Federation Annual Meeting, 2018
Panelist, The Past, Present, and Future of Libraries Symposium,
American Philosophical Society, 2018
Toward Culturally Competent Archival (Re)Description of Marginalized Histories
Panelist, Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting, 2018
Giving Voice to Archival Silences: Amplifying Black History Through Research and Technology
Invited Speaker, Annual African and African American Studies Lecture Series,
Missouri State University, 2018
2017
Introduction to Digital Humanities
Class Guest Speaker, Michigan State University, 2017
OCLC Works in Progress Webinar: Umbra Search African American History
Webinar Co-Facilitator, 2017
Lost in Aggregation: Towards Inclusive Metadata and Descriptive Practices in Digital Collections
Working Session Facilitator, DPLAFest, 2017
History Keepers Program
Invited Speaker, Yale University Afro-American Cultural Center, 2017
Paths to Discovery: Programs Bringing African American Collections to Stakeholder Communities
Panel Chair, Midwest Archives Conference, 2017 Annual Meeting
2016
Making the Invisible Visible: Activating Black History Through Digital Storytelling
Panelist, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2016
An Honest Reckoning: [Digital?] Sites for Black History and Research Scholarship
Panelist, Association for the Study of African American History and Life, 2016
Black Archives Now: Collaboration, Access, and Use
Panelist, Emory University, 2016