Presentations

Academic Lectures and Presentations

2025
Formed, Not Replaced: Human-Centered AI in Theological Education Workshop. Methodist Theological School in Ohio. August 2025.

2024
“Author Meets Readers: Amanda Baugh’s Falling in Love with Nature: The Values of Latinx Catholic Environmentalism (NYU Press, 2024). Panel Presentation at American Academy of Religion Conference, San Antonio, Texas, November 2024. Session: Catholic Studies Unit and Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Unit.

Digital Ethics and Embodiment Project. Invited Participant. Stead Center for Ethics and Values at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. June 2024.

Food, Wealth, and Ecological Well-Being Program, Ecowomanist Collective Workshop. Invited Participant. School of Divinity, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC. May 2024.

“Poor Technology: Artificial Intelligence and the Experience of Poverty by Levi Checketts.” Invited Book Panel Respondent. Grefenstette Center for Ethics in Science, Technology, and Law, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA. April 2024.

2023

“#golaydown: Viral Musicking, Digital Antiphony, and Collaborative Performances of Virtual Spirituals on TikTok.” Presentation at American Academy of Religion Conference, San Antonio, Texas, November 2023. Session: Music and Religion Unit.

“#RIPBlackTwitter, #twitterhomegoingservice, and Mourning Memes: Twitter’s Digital Apocalypse and Black Twitter’s Irreverent Religious Protest,” Presentation at American Academy of Religion Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, November 2023. Joint Session, Religion, Media and Culture and Technology, Religion, and Society.

Symposium, “Black Religion, Pedagogy, and Digital Media.” Invited Scholar. Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts. May 2023

Science for Seminaries @MTSO Campus Wide Event: “Growing Resilience: Connections Between Soil Science, Climate Change, and Spiritual Meanings of Soil and Water.” Panel Discussion with Dr. Rattan Lal and Dr. Tim Van Meter. April 2023

2022

“From Cyberwomanism to Digital Womanism: Theorizing Womanist
Approaches to Digital Praxis and Technology Politics.” Presentation at American Academy of Religion Conference, Denver, CO, November 2022. Session: Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Unit.

“Presentation on Digital Artefacts and Digital Pedagogy.” Technology, Ecology, Religion and Art (TERA) Collective Workshop, https://teracollective.com/ . Montreal, Canada. October 2022.

Food, Wealth, and Ecological Well-Being Peer Mentoring Program. Invited Participant. School of Divinity, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC. October 2022.

Science for Seminaries @MTSO Virtual Event: “All About Waste: Sanitation, Justice, and Reinventing the Toilet” Panel Discussion with Dr. Elizabeth Allison, Dr. Marc Deshusses, and scholar-activist Sarah Nahar. September 2022.

Science for Seminaries @MTSO Virtual Event: “Technology, Older Adults and Churches: Opportunities and Challenges” Panel Discussion with Dr. Heidi Campbell and Marilyn Stratford. August 2022.

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion (DoSER) program and the Equipping Christian Leadership in an Age of Science (ECLAS) International Science for Seminaries Retreat. Invited Participant. AAAS Headquarters, Washington, DC, August 2022.

“Future Humans, Human Futures: Religion, Technology and Ethics” Research Institute funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. Invited Participant. Virginia Tech Center for Humanities, June 2022.

Science for Seminaries @MTSO Virtual Event: “Trust in Science? Facing the Challenge of Science Denial.” Panel Discussion with Dr. Gale Sinatra and Dr. Barbara Hofer. May 2022.

Science for Seminaries Lecture. “Deepfakes and Cheap Fakes: Manipulated Media as an Ethical Challenge.” Invited Speaker, Duquesne University. Pittsburg, PA. April 2022.

2021

Science for Seminaries Virtual Panel: “Pastors, Pandemics, and Public Health.” Panel Discussion with Dr. Oleta Fuller, Dr. Emanuel Cleaver III, and Dr. Racheal Schneider. September 2021

Science for Seminaries Event: “Decolonizing AI: From Panopticon Dystopias to Liberative Possibilities.” Respondent and Panel Discussion with Dr. Phillip Reed-Butler and Dr. Sylvester Johnson. Chicago Theological Seminary. April 2021.

“Race in the Study of Religion and Ecology” International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture Conference, March 2021. Session: Key Concepts in Religion, Nature, and Culture.

2018
Featured Poet, American Academy of Religion Conference, Denver Colorado, November 2018. Session: Policy and Poetry: The African American Religious Imagination and Social Transformation. Sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution’s Center for the Study of African American Religious Life.

“Informatization and the Algorithmic, Automated, Underconnected, Surveilled, Misogynistic Nature of Women’s Disempowerment in the 21st Century: Cyberfeminist and Cyberwomanist Theological Responses” American Academy of Religion Conference, Denver Colorado, November 2018. Session: Women’s Caucus AAR/SBL

2017
“I Only Roll With Goddesses”: Black Women as the Divine Feminine in Internet Subcultures and Digital Visual Culture.” Presentation at American Academy of Religion Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, November 2017. Session: Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Unit.

2016
“WTH?!! H8U {People}!! – With Anti-Black Trolling, E-Bile, and Racist S***storms, Is a Love Praxis Possible in Mediatized Worlds?” Presentation at American Academy of Religion Conference, San Antonio, Texas, November 2016. Session: Black Theology and Revolutionary Love.

“Conjuring the Diasporic African American Past for the Present: Reality TV Genomics, the Remediation of Collective Memory, and the Hegemonic Hijacking of Black Identities.” Presentation at American Academy of Religion Conference. San Antonio, Texas, November 2016. Co-Sponsored Session: Religion, Media, and Culture Group and Religion, Memory, History Group.

“Is Digital Activism Shifting the Gendered Politics of U.S. Black Struggle? The Increasing Visibility of U.S. African American Women and Same Gender Loving Activists On Social Media.” Presentation at 2016 Consultation of African and African-Diasporan Women in Religion and Theology, Theme: “Say Her Name!: Africana Women as Interpreters, Healers and Revolutionaries.” Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, July 2016.

“Digital Activism Workshop I and II.” Workshops facilitated at 2016 Consultation of African and African-Diasporan Women in Religion and Theology, Theme: “Say Her Name!: Africana Women as Interpreters, Healers and Revolutionaries.” Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, July 2016.

2015
“Burn This %#@ Down! Protest Space, Apocalyptic Envisioning, and Media Representations of Racial Unrest in Ferguson, Missouri.” American Academy of Religion Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, November 2015. Presentation for the panel, From Post-Apartheid Cape Town to Post-Racial Ferguson: Black Death, Public Protests, and the Recasting of White Shamelessness.

2014
“Backyard Gardens as Sacred Spaces: An Emerging Research Agenda of Spiritual Ecology for Ecowomanism.” American Academy of Religion Conference, San Diego, California, November 2014. Presentation for the panel, Ecowomanism 101: A Roundtable Discussing Vital Themes and Trajectories.

2013
“Imagineering Geneatopia: Genomic Heterotopias and Biologized Blackness in the PBS African American Lives Series.” Second Annual Ways of Knowing Conference. Science, Religion, and Culture Program at Harvard Divinity School, Boston, Massachusetts, October 2013.