speaking & facilitation
speaking
Voice and visibility are powerful tools that I use in service of environmental and social work. I lean into opportunities to speak and share my convictions, while continuing to refine my skills and teach others.
For a short preview of my speaking engagements, please see below.
Keynote Guest Speaker
Stand, work, sing: A young person’s approach to saving the natural world
as part of the keynote speech with Jeff Rennicke
Wilderness Wildlife Week
2019
Moderator and Organizer
Securing urban viability through Nature: The Water Forest of Mexico City
APPAM 2018 International Conference
Public Policy for Sustainable Metropolitan Development
2018
Know Tomorrow MC
Know Tomorrow: Climate Rally with Al Gore
Students for a Sustainable Stanford
2015
Teaching Assistant
ENGR 103: Public Speaking for Engineers
The Stanford Technical Communications Program
2016 - 2017
Oral Communications Tutor
Hume Center for Writing & Speaking
Stanford University
2016 - 2017
As a Teaching Assistant and Oral Communications Tutor at Stanford University, I learned to lead by the needs of the classroom. I would modify lesson plans and develop creative exercises to help my students gain speaking confidence in front of their peers. I learned to adapt my instruction and activities quickly to support needs of my diverse classroom, from freshmen to EL graduate students.
facilitation
Facilitation is a core part of my practice. I thrive when designing and supporting creative, open spaces that foster dialogue in its fullest sense: to create a flow of meaning between participants. Through my work, I have facilitated workshops and conversations between civil society, scientists, nonprofit leaders, social sector researchers, and campus organizations both in English and in Spanish. I love sharing what I have learned with others.
For a short preview of my public and shareable work, please see below.
Workshop: Facilitation 101 Training
Co-facilitator with Leah Mosier
CU Boulder Leeds School of Business
Leeds Scholars Program
March 2020
Workshop: Visioning Environmental Justice at Stanford
Environmental Justice Coordinator
Students for a Sustainable Stanford
October 2015
Panel: The California Drought: Addressing Environmental Injustices
Shaking the Foundations: Progressive Lawyering Conference
Stanford Law School
November 2015
Panel: Women Leaders in Environmental Justice
Shaking the Foundations: Progressive Lawyering Conference
Stanford Law School
November 2014
Public Workshops: Developing guidelines for the Affordable Housing & Sustainable Communities Grant Program
The Strategic Growth Council
Fresno, Oakland, and Los Angeles
Summer 2014
My journey into facilitation began in Spring 2014 while serving as the Environmental Justice Coordinator for Students for a Sustainable Stanford. In this position, I initiated conversations with student groups across campus, organized the annual campus-wide Environmental Justice Week, and supported the rest of SSS to ensure projects brought a lens of environmental justice. Where appropriate and possible, I sought to bring in knowledge and input from local environmental justice organizations.
Visioning Environmental Justice at Stanford was one of the first collaborative meetings of what has now become a growing Environmental Justice movement at Stanford University. Undergraduate and graduate students from across campus came together to discuss inter-sectional environmental justice issues, build new relationships, and find ways our
environmental, human rights, and social work could be more collaborative.
The same year, I coordinated and facilitated a panel on Women Leaders in Environmental Justice at the Shaking the Foundations: Progressive Lawyering Conference at the Stanford Law School. The panel was the only event organized by an undergraduate and only one of two that focused on the environment. In 2015, I came back to the conference, co-organizing a panel on The California Drought: Addressing Environmental Injustices along with two members of the Stanford Environmental Law Society.
As an intern with the California Strategic Growth Council, I helped coordinate and facilitate public commentary meetings across the state to develop guidelines for the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Grant Program. We met with community members, developers, urban planners, social justice groups, and small business owners to discuss how Cap & Trade grant funds ought to be used to support sustainable and affordable mixed-use developments.