Panels, Podcasts & Public Talks
TEDx Talk-St. Thomas
In my first TED Talk (2022), “Pursuing Education Equity: From St. Louis to St. John,” I discuss educational equity and its relationship to history, culture, and race. I also share my journey of getting students the resources they need to achieve in and beyond the classroom.
Creative Conversations- Bajo El Sol
“Placing School: Land, Learning and Self-Determination on St. John” (2023) reveals how St. John’s history as a national park island and U.S. territory has influenced local efforts to obtain a K-12 public school on the island by connecting it to larger themes of American education, American empire, and American conservation.
Cross-Territorial Education Panel w/ Right to Democracy & WTJX
In this panel (2024), “Education Under U.S. Rule,” education leaders from across the five U.S. territories of American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands gather to discuss our respective education histories and how the public school curriculum can be a tool for local empowerment and self-determination.
Strictly Facts Podcast
In this episode (2023) entitled “Consequences of the Environment on Caribbean Education with Dr. Jessica S. Samuel,” I join Alexandria Miller to discuss educational equity and the environment, with a special focus on the US Virgin Islands and the hidden racial ramifications of environmental conservation on learning in St. John.
WTJX & St. John Heritage Collective
Caribbean Studies Association -Dialogue Series
In this inaugural panel (2023), young and seasoned members of the Caribbean Studies Association join together to elaborate on the role of mentorship in our individual pursuits of scholarship and research.
WTJX/PBS/NPR- Analyze This with Neville James
In this episode of Analyze This (2024), I join former Virgin Islands senator Neville James to discuss my educational organization R.E.A.L., Caribbean identity and cultural education.
In this panel entitled, Small Islands in the Anthropocene (2021), I, along with Dr. Crystal Fortwangler and Dr. Hadiya Sewer, discuss the role of colonial imaginaries on environmental stewardship specifically as carried out by federal agencies such as the U.S. National Park Service.
Lectures & Conferences
Guest Speaker—“Saving America’s Paradise: The Colonial Nature of Disater Relief in the U.S. Virgin Islands,” University of Minnesota—Environmental Justice Guest Speaker Series, Spring 2023
“Disaster in America’s Paradise,” in Caribbean Conflicts: Dispossession, Colonialism and the Environment, American Society of Environmental History Annual Conference, Spring 2023
“Locating the Virgin Islander in Environmental Justice,” Virgin Islands Studies Collective Conference, University of the Virgin Islands, Spring 2022
Guest Lecturer—“Overturning Roe v. Wade: Race, Reproductive Justice & the Revolt against Civil Rights” for American Women in History taught by Dr. Channon Miller, University of San Diego, Fall 2022
“Saving America’s Paradise: The Disasters of U.S. Empire on the Island of St. John” in The Imperial in Unexpected Places: Creative Resistance and Ambiguous Power across the U.S. Empire, American Studies Association, Fall 2021
Guest Lecturer—“Reparative Historical Methods” for The Historian’s Craft taught by Dr. Channon Miller, University of San Diego, Fall 2021
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“Education for Resistance: The Fight for Land and Learning on St. John,” Caribbean without Borders Graduate Student Conference, University of Puerto Rico- Rio Piedras, Spring 2020
“Minding Land: Consumption and Education on the Island of St. John,” Eastern Caribbean Island Culture Conference, University of the Virgin Islands, Fall 2019
“Backchattin’ into Existence: Rebellious Black Speech,” Southeastern American Studies Association, Emory University, Spring 2019
“Joanin’: Fugitive Black Speech in the American Public School,” Carolina Lowcountry in the Atlantic World Program, College of Charleston, Spring 2019
“Teaching While Loving Blackness” in Radical Self Love as Decolonial Education, American Studies Association, Fall 2017
“Navigating Academia from the Margins,” New England American Studies Association, Boston University, Fall 2017
