Workshop Facilitator - East Bay Community Foundation Retreat "Building Transitional skills for an Academic Lifestyle" AUG 2011

Keynote Speaker - East Bay Community Foundation Mentor/Scholar Kick Off "Accountability & Healing: Personal Development Strategies for transitioning into Adulhood" JUNE 2011

Workshop Faciliator - NCDA Global Career Development ConferenceProvided curriculum, sample exercises, and evaluation findings on modeling, structuring and developing techniques to increase career clarity, engagement and college aspirations in urban high school youth as tool to bridge inequities in access.2010

Curriculum Consultant - Northern Carolina State University NASA eClips Project Evaluation - Provided expertise in career development, school-based curriculum and other academic interventions to evaluate videos and multimedia lesson plans addressing science topics covered in the National Science Education Standards developed by NASA and National Institute for Aerospace. Provided NASA and National Institute for Aerospace with information needed to attract students of diverse backgrounds to science and related professions. 2010

Co-Founder & Coordinator of ConsciouzRoots Program – youth program offering art, media and critical thinking for young people.“Sanjo”, Collective of young women, ages 12-16, who explore culture, history, and community.

• Goal - To foster Cultural and Global Consciousness through the understanding of self and community. Youth created media project for month long exhibition with Global Youth Media and Arts Festival at Zeum Arts & Technology museum in S.F. 2006-2007

• “Turf Talk”, film screenings and round table discussions for Black History month on education, cultural continuity, youth development, the plight of Hip Hop, and community activism. Featured: Beyond Beats and Rhymes. Boys of Baraka, and Invisible Children. 2007

Workshop Faciliator - "Hip Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes National Training & Workshop Presenter (Flipping The script Curriculum) –Audience: Corporation of Public Broadcasting executives, educators and organization leaders from across America. Provided workshop on media literacy using Mos Def’s & Talib Kweli’s track Respiration 2006

Commencement Speaker - California State University, Northridge Black Graduation “Address to The Jury of My Generation” 2005

Founder/Coordinator – 1st Annual “Embracing Womanhood Conference” - California State University, Northridge

     Participants: 150 Students, 2 Los Angeles Unified School District High Schools

     Workshops: Developing Positive Self-Esteem, Believing Change Is Possible

     Women In Hip Hop & Self Expression, and Developing Progress in Higher 

    Education

Guest Speaker - “Front Page” program of KJLH Los Angeles Radio station 102.3. As a panelist, represented a youth of the Hip Hop generation which opposes words of destruction in mainstream music and within culture. 2004

Guest speaker - “Real Talk” program of KKBT Los Angeles Radio station 100.3 The Beat. As a panelist, represented youth awareness on reparations and social and economical factors that are present in urban communities of the United States. May 2004

Youth Keynote Speaker - Just Think Foundation’s “Youth, Media & the Power of Communication with Dr. Maya Angelou. 2000 (Audience size 3,800)