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I am a regular speaker at professional and academic conferences, symposia, and events in the U.S. and internationally. Feel free to contact me for speaker engagements.

a BRIEF Selection of recent invited talks

  • “Acting on Anti-Displacement Strategies.”

  • “Equity and Anti-Displacement.”

  • “CDFIs: Essential Partners for Racial Equity in Small Business.”

  • “Cultural Organizing as Reclamation and Resistance.” Smart Growth America’s Equity Summit, Washington, DC.

  • “Suburban Schools, Urban Realities: Policy and Possibility at the Urban Edge.”

  • “The Scales of Economic Justice: Examining the Balance of Philanthropy, Black Business, and Racial Equity.”

  • “The Right to Suburbia: Combating Gentrification on the Urban Edge.”

  • “Building Legacy Wealth for Small Businesses.”

  • “Somos de Langley Park: The Fight for Fair Redevelopment along Maryland’s Purple Line.”

  • White House Meeting on Tenant Protections and Rental Affordability. White House Domestic Policy Council and National Economic Council, Washington, DC.

  • “Suburban Inequality in the United States,”

  • “Trespassers?: Asian Americans and the Battle for Suburbia.”

  • “Redeveloping the Suburbs, Re-Envisioning the Suburbs after COVID.”

  • “Go-Go City: Displacement and Protest in Washington DC.” 

  • “The Future of Retail: Entrepreneurship and Main Street Workshop.”