Public Speaking

SUBJECT AREAS

  • Poverty and Inequality

  • Housing & Urban Policy

  • Race and Racism in the U.S

  • Civil Rights and Black Activism

Past Speaking Events

Poverty & Inequality

  • “This is America!: Mixed-Income Development, the Racialization of Urban Poverty, and the Legacy of Chattel Slavery in the United States”

    Council for World Mission, Birmingham, AL

  • “Cities Set on Hills: Soteriology and the Spatial Cleansing of the Black Urban Poor"

    Seattle University, Seattle, WA

  • “Purging the Poor: The Redevelopment of Barry Farm and the Peril of Public Housing Reform”

    48th Annual D.C. History Conference, Washington, D.C.

Housing & Urban Policy

  • “Resident Evil: The Structural Violence of Neoliberal Urban Redevelopment in the United States”

    Societas Ethica Annual Meeting, Volos, Greece

  • “Reorienting the Debate on Mixed-Income Housing as Urban Social Policy”

    San José State University, San José, CA

  • “Economic Development in Place: The Creative Destruction of Black Geographies in Twenty-First Century U.S. Cities”

    Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Race & Racism In The U.S.

  • “Give Us Your White and Your Working Masses: Donald J. Trump, Merit, and Racial Representation in the Immigration Debate”

    Hekima Institute of Peace Studies and International Relations, Nairobi, Kenya

  • “Excluded from the Beginning: Neoliberalism, White Supremacy, and Modern Discourse”

    22nd Annual CLIFF Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

  • “Urban Redevelopment and E-race-ure: Race, Class, and the Politics of Place in Washington, D.C.”

    Northeastern University, Boston, MA

Civil Rights & Black Activism

  • “The Religious Significance of the Black Lives Matter Movement in the Fight for Freedom and Survival in Urban Space”

    Urban Affairs Association Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN

  • “Criminalizing Blackness: Racial Justice, Black Religious Activism, and the Contestation of State Violence.”

    Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion, Raleigh, NC