Selected Public History

August 2024:  Podcast Guest Interview The Black Studies Podcast

July 2023: “Integrating from the Top Down: Black Trustees and Faculty at Lake Forest College,” Lake Forest Lake Bluff History Center

February 2022: “The Power of Oral Histories,” The Haitian American Museum of Chicago and Illinois Humanities

February 2022: “The Story of Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable,” The Field Museum

August 2021: “Legitimizing Hip Hop in Academia,” The 21st Podcast Interview, NPR WBEZ Chicago

September 2020: “Monuments and Memorials,” Chicago Humanities Festival

June 2020: “On Juneteenth,” Marlborough School interview

June 2020: “Why We Rebel: Then and Now,” Mujahid Talks, Muslim TV interview

August 2019 “Haitians in Chicago,” Radio Telé Solidarité Interview

October 2017: “Walking the Curved Line to the PhD,” TEDX Lake Forest College



Selected Academic Conferences

2024: Roundtable Participant, “New Directions in African American Women’s History” Midwestern History Conference

2023: “The Diasporic Life of Dr. Metz Lochard: Haitians in Chicago,” Repatriating African Studies, Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD) 12th Biennial Conference 

2022: “New Directions in African American, African Diasporic, and Immigration History” IEHS Roundtable, Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting

2021: Roundtable Discussion: “Reflections on Teaching Never Caught and Critical Texts on Race and Gender in Early America” Society for Historians of the Early American Republic 42nd Annual Conference  

2020: “Where are all the Haitians in Chicago? Churches and Digital Mapping Technologies” Black Migrations Symposium, University of Missouri

2018: “The Sanctity of Stories: Haitians and Religion in Chicago”   The Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, Loyola University

2018: “Haiti and Chicago: A Hidden History”  Black Communities Conference, University of North Carolina

2017: “Duvalierism, The Changing Idea of Haiti and the Formation of the Haitian Diaspora in Chicago, 1957-1985”  Harvard University Graduate Conference on International History: Migration, Immigration, and Diaspora

2016: “DuSable’s Diaspora: Haitians in Chicago, 1935-2010”     Association for the Study of African American Life and History Annual Meeting : Hallowed Grounds: Sites of African American Memories