Presentations
In addition to academic, conference presentations, I have collaborated with colleagues and community members to design workshops (individual and series) and professional development experiences for educators, scholars, advocates, and community members. Workshop topics have included:
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Collective Memory
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Healing Justice
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Colonialism, Imperialism, and Migration
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Power and Oppression
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Southeast Asian History (in collaboration with the Dorchester Organizing and Training Institute)
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Southeast Asian Deportation Community Defense (in collaboration with the Asian American Resource Workshop)
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History and ELA Curricular Horizontal and Vertical Alignment (in collaboration with the Center for the Professional Education of Teachers)
Conference Presentations
Spring 2023
“The Mixed-Up-Ness is the Complete Picture:” Lessons from Southeast Asian American Understandings of Family Histories Paper Presentation
Roundtable: Reframing of Status Quo and Inspirations for Furthering the Conversations
Research on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans Special Interest Group, American Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL
Fall 2022
“Engaging a Feminist Refugee Epistemology in Social Studies” Presentation
This Bridge Called My Back: Engaging Feminisms of Color in Social Studies Education Symposium
National Council for the Social Studies, College and University Faculty Assembly, Philadelphia, PA
“Exploring Southeast Asian American Storytelling and Agency through Visual Methodologies” Presentation
What’s Next? Examining Asian and Asian American Representation in Social Studies Education Contemporary Issues Dialogue
National Council for the Social Studies, College and University Faculty Assembly, Philadelphia, PA
“Book Chat: Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color” Conversations with Colleagues
National Council for the Social Studies, College and University Faculty Graduate Student Forum, Philadelphia, PA
Fall 2021
“#FreedomSummer2020: Lessons from Youth Activists” Workshop
National Council for the Social Studies, Virtual Conference
“What is the work? A Dialogue on Collaboration, Community, & Abolition” Conversations with Colleagues
National Council for the Social Studies, College and University Faculty Graduate Student Forum, Virtual
Conference
Summer 2021
“Disrupting Displacement: Organizer Reflections on Movement Building Against Deportations in the SEA Community” Community Forum/Workshop
Southeast Asian American Studies Conference, Virtual Conference, San José State University, CA
Spring 2021
“SEA-ing the Past, SEA-ing Ourselves: Meaning making processes of the Children of Southeast Asian Refugees” Paper Presentation
Research on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans SIG, American Educational Research Association, Virtual Conference
Fall 2020
“Book Discussion on Ibram X. Kendi’s How to be an Anti-Racist” Conversation with Colleagues
National Council for the Social Studies, College and University Faculty Assembly, Virtual Conference
“Representations and the Self: Historical Understandings of Southeast Asian American Youth” Presentation
National Council for the Social Studies, College and University Faculty Graduate Student Forum, Virtual Conference
Fall 2019
“Conceiving the Past Between Generations: Toward Southeast Asian American Historical Understandings” Paper Presentation
National Council for the Social Studies, College and University Faculty Graduate Student Forum, Austin, TX
“Speaking Our Truth: Graduate Students of Color Navigating White University Spaces” Contemporary Issues Dialogue
National Council for the Social Studies, College and University Faculty, Austin, TX
“Civic Discontent: West African Youth and the Politics of Non-Belonging” Paper Presentation
National Council for the Social Studies, College and University Faculty, Austin, TX
Summer 2019
“Secondhand Smoke: Exploring Postmemory Among the Children of Southeast Asian Refugees” Paper Presentation
Memory Studies Association, Madrid, Spain
Spring 2019
“Reading the World: Navigating Spaces as the Child of Vietnamese Refugees” Paper Presentation
Panel Member for “Making Visible: Youth Memory & War Narratives” Session, Association for Asian American Studies, Madison, WI
“Graphic Novels: Postmemorial Works of the Children of Refugees” Paper Presentation
Visual Research for Social Change, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY
“Vietnamese Americans Learning about the Vietnam War” Poster Presentation
Academic Festival, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY
Fall 2018
“Conceptualizations of the Refugee” Paper Presentation
National Council for the Social Studies, International Assembly, Chicago, IL
“Negotiating Narratives, (re)Producing Subjectivities: Perspectives of 2nd Generation Southeast Asian Youth” Paper Presentation
National Council for the Social Studies, College and University Faculty Assembly Graduate Student Forum, Chicago, IL
“Spaces of Learning Among the 2nd Generation” Invited Talk
Asian and Asian American Research Institute, City University of New York, New York, NY
“Conceptualizing Refugeeness” Paper Presentation
Race & Pedagogy Conference, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
Spring 2018
“Stuck in the Middle” Paper Presentation
Asian American/Asian Educational Conference, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY
“Negotiating Narratives” Poster
Diversity in Research Practice, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY
“The Stories We Tell” Paper Presentation
Visual Research for Social Change Conference, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY
“Storytelling in Different Spaces of Learning” Paper Presentation
Association for Asian American Studies, San Francisco, CA
“Negotiating Narratives of War” Poster
Curriculum and Teaching Graduate Student Led Conference, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY
“In the Bicultural Middle” Paper Presentation
International Society for the Social Studies, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
“Art as Empathy in the History Classroom” Poster
Center for Teaching and Learning Symposium, Columbia University, New York, NY
Professional Development
Summer 2020
“Radical Healing Zine Making” Workshop
Reimagining Education Summer Institute, Teachers College, Columbia University, Virtual Conference
Fall 2019
“Modeling Conversations of Migration” Workshop
National Council for the Social Studies, Austin, TX
Summer 2019
“Tracing Connections Through History” Workshop
Reimagining Education Summer Institute, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY
“Mapping History” Workshop
Free Minds, Free People Conference, Twin Cities, MN
Spring 2019
“Introduction to Justice Research Project” Workshop
Celebration of Teaching, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY
Vertical Alignment for ELA Workshop Series
Westchester Square Academy, Bronx, NY
Vertical Alignment for History/Social Studies Workshop Series
Westchester Square Academy, Bronx, NY
Fall 2018
Vertical Alignment for ELA Workshop Series
Westchester Square Academy, Bronx, NY
Vertical Alignment for History/Social Studies Workshop Series
Westchester Square Academy, Bronx, NY
Summer 2018
“Collective Memory and the 2nd Generation” Workshop
Union of North American Vietnamese Student Associations, Atlanta, GA
Spring 2018
“Art As Empathy Across Disciplines” Workshop
Applied Linguistics Winter Conference, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY
“Power and Oppression” Workshop
Teaching in Trying Times Conference, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY
“Colonialism and Imperialism” Workshop
New York Collective of Radical Educators, James Baldwin High School, New York, NY