I regularly serve as a speaker and source on issues related to media transformation, and collaborate with researchers, makers and funders to create related events. Highlights include:

CONFERENCE ORGANIZER

• Coordinator, Media Impact Festival, for Media Impact Funders,  2015
• Co-organizer; #dareconf; University of Arts in Philadelphia; May 19-20, 2015,
• C0-organizer, Media Impact Forum, for Media Impact Funders, July 2015
• Co-organizer, Media Impact Forum: Remaking Public Media, for Media Impact Funders, Kaiser Family Foundation’s Barbara Jordan Conference Center, June 4 2014
• Coordinator, Media Impact Festival, for Media Impact Funders, National Geographic Museum, June 2014
• C0-organizer, Open Mic, Open Minds: An Exploration of Social Issues Through Standup, 2014
• Co-organizer, Media Impact Focus: AIM and Shoot, for Media Impact Funders, Skylight Studios at the Annenberg Space for Photography, March 13, 2014
• Co-organizer, Media Impact Focus: Assessing Impact of Media, for Media Impact Funders, The Paley Center, November 25, 2013
• Co-organizer, Public Media Camp, American University, November 19, 2010
• Co-organizer, Public Media Camp, American University, October 17, 2009
• Co-organizer, The Future of Public Media: Participatory Models, Global Networks, International Communications Association Meeting, May 2011
• Co-organizer: Impact Summits series across seven cities, 2010
• Co-organizer, Beyond Broadcast: Public Service Media from Local to Global, USC-Annenberg, June 3-5, 2009
• Co-organizer, Beyond Broadcast: Mapping Public Media, American University, June 17, 2008

KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS

• Keynote Speaker, RIPE Conference, BBC London, September 8-11, 2010
• Visiting Honors Scholar, Muhlenberg College, November 17-19, 2009

SESSION ORGANIZER

• Webinar series organizer, Philanthropy’s Role in Combating Misinformation, with Kelly Born of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, October to December 2017
• “#NBPC360: What Does Impact Have to Do With It?” January 26, 2016
• Co-organizer, MIFocus at NON-COMMvention, Philadelphia, June 2015
• Workshop leader, Get Your Impact Strategy Humming, Media that Matters, February 14, 2013
• Panel organizer, The Futures of Public Media, Futures of Entertainment, November 9, 2012
• Panel organizer, Confessions from the Platform Agnostics, Integrated Media Association, March 8, 2012
• Workshop leader, Designing for Impact Clinic, Media that Matters, February 10, 2012
• Preconference organizer, The Future of Public Media, International Communications Association Conference, May 26, 2011
• Panel organizer, Face to Face with the Future of Public Media, The National Conference for Media Reform, April 8, 2011
• Panel organizer, How Do You Know Your Media Matters?, We Media conference, March 11, 2010
• Panel organizer, The People Formerly Known as the Audience, National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture conference, August 27, 2009
• Panel organizer, Crafting Policy for Public Media 2.0, We Media conference, February 26, 2009

PRESENTER

• Presenter, What’s New Media Good for Anyway? USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center, April 21, 2016
• Emerging Strategies for Supporting Local and Ethnic Reporting; Annenberg Foundation’s Skylight Studios; September 26, 2015
• Hands-on Workshop: Communications Evaluation for Foundations and Nonprofits, Philanthropy; September 24, 2015
• Presenter, Media That Matters; Washington, DC; February 19-20, 2015
• Presenter, Tribeca Film Institute Interactive Day; April 2015
• Presenter, Got Impact? APTS Grant Center webinar, June 17, 2014
• Presenter, Media That Matters; Washington, DC; February 2014
• Presenter, Measuring the Impact of Cross Media Projects, StoriesLab, May 4, 2013
• Panelist, The Power of Narrative, Boston University, April 5-7, 2013
• Moderator, Localore Plays Austin: Speaker<>Street<>Screen, SXSW, March 8, 2013
• Presenter, Our Voices on the Air, August 2, 2012
• Panelist, Will the Last Reporter Please Turn out the Lights, New America Foundation, June 20, 2011
• Panelist, Hurley Symposium, National Press Club, April 26, 2011
• Moderator, Putting the Public Back in Public Media, SXSW conference, March 12, 2011
• Presenter, Media That Matters conference, February 10-11, 2011
• Participant, Aspen Institute Roundtable on Public Media Reform, December 10, 2010
• Presenter, TV Publica conference, Brazil, December 1-5, 2010
• Presenter, Civic/collaborative Media Models: What’s Working and Why?, Personal Democracy Forum, June 3, 2010
• Presenter, Social Media, Net Neutrality, and the Future of Journalism, Media Access Project 2009 Policy Forum Series, December 14, 2009
• Presenter, The Future of Reading, Federal Library and Information Center Committee Annual Forum, Library of Congress, October 22, 2009
• Presenter, New Media, Civic Media, MIT6 conference, April 24, 2009
• Presenter, Supporting the Emerging Media Ecology, Media Re:public conference, March 28, 2008
• Visiting speaker, Centre for the Study of Global Media and Democracy, Goldsmiths, University of London, January 17, 2008