ADDRESSES
“We Rise Together: Community Resilience and Museum Responses to Tragedy,” Keynote Address, Nevada Museum Association Annual Conference, October 2018, Boulder City, NV.
“Internships as Stepping Stones,” Chancellor’s Undergraduate Internship Program Reunion and Welcome Reception, Alumna Address, UC Santa Cruz, 2015.
Alumna Address, Rainbow Ceremony (10th Annual LGBT graduation), UC Santa Cruz, June 12, 2008.
PANELS
“Using Our Voices to Build Community Together: Collaborations Between Student Leaders and Administrators in Addressing Free Speech Controversies,” UC Merced Free Speech Week, Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and co-sponsored by UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement. February 25, 2021. Served as coordinating presenter, and panelist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xiwx22crFCw&feature=youtu.be
“Speech, White Supremacy, and Insurrection,” hosted by UCSB’s Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life, and co-sponsored by UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement, and the following UCSB entities: Assistant Vice Chancellor and Dean of Students Office, Center for Cold War Studies and International History, Civic and Community Engagement, MultiCultural Center, Straight White American Jesus, and Taubman Symposia in Jewish Studies. Description: The January 6 insurrection at the United States Capitol brought to the fore the threat that white nationalist forces pose to our democracy. Join the Capps Center for a conversation about these forces, their history, and what can be done to resist them. Guests include UC Free Speech Fellows Ryan Coonerty, JD, MA (Santa Cruz County Supervisor), Melissa Barthelemy, JD, MA (Public History doctoral candidate), and Dr. Katya Armistead (Assistant Vice Chancellor and Dean of Student Life). February 9. 2021. https://www.cappscenter.ucsb.edu/video and direct link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyN1ev2j0Ng&feature=emb_logo
“Balancing Acts: New Tools to Help Student Affairs Administrators Navigate Free Speech on Campus,” co-sponsored between NASPA (Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education) and the UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement, October 2020, Virtual. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naz8D3uZqKE
“Presidential Election 2020,” hosted by UCSB’s Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life, and co-sponsored by UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement, and the following UCSB entities: the Blum Center on Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy, the Feminist Futures Initiatives, the Center for Black Studies Research, Student Engagement & Leadership, the Multi-Cultural Center, Educational Opportunity Program, Gauchos Vote, and KCSB Radio. “Presidential Election 2020: What Students Want?” October 26, 2020 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ePZUI5vZpfRnetV-r7KxwR1SCkxISKiH/view “Presidential Election 2020: Where Do We Go from Here?” November 10, 2020 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h60MGblPr7RKf5v8eDfIuOVgYz1hLG1t/view And on the Capps website at https://www.cappscenter.ucsb.edu/video
GUEST LECTURES FOR CLASSES
“Male Sexual Entitlement, Violence Against Women and Feminist Resistance,” Introduction to Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Professor Juno Salazar Parrenas, Cornell University, November 2021.
“Memorialization and Students as Participant Researchers,” Writing 1: Approaches to University Writing, Professor Kathy Patterson, UC Santa Barbara, Spring 2021, Fall 2017, Summer 2017, Spring 2017, Winter 2017, Fall 2016, and Summer 2016.
“Beyond the Ivory Tower — Careers in Public History: Museums, Archives, and Community-Based Work,” History 270: What is History? Professor Ed Linenthal, Indiana University — Bloomington, 2017.
“Material Culture and the May 23, 2014 Isla Vista Tragedy Memorial Project(s),” History of Art & Architecture 255G: Studies in the History and Theory of Museums, Toward a Museum of Presences, Professory Amy Buono, UC Santa Barbara, 2017.
“We Remember Them: From Memorial Sites to Exhibition,” UCSB Library Presentation for seminar on professional development for Library staff, July 2016.
“Careers in Public History,” History 192 DR: Directed Readings in Public History, Isla Vista Community History and Historical Commemoration, Professors Ann Plane and Randy Bergstrom, UC Santa Barbara, 2015.
