Intercambio Summer Conference
- Putting English to Work – 2024
Festival of Nations with Division Midway Alliance (DMA)
- 2022 – Taste of Nations Food Safety Skills
- 2021 – Taste of Nations at People’s Market & Giveaway
- 2019 – Taste of Nations Tent
- 2017 – Taste of Nations Tent
- 2016 – Taste of Nations Tent
- 2015 – Taste of Nations Tent
Literacy Education and Second Language Learning (LESLLA)
- August, 2017 – Portland State University, Portland, OR: Building A Resource Generating, Multilevel, Community ESOL Program from Scratch
- August, 2013 – City College, San Francisco: Dynamic Activities for Multilevel Engagement
Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI)
- Dec 2023-2025: YLAI Alumni Council member
- October 2018, Portland, OR: The Portlandia Race, A Municipal Scavenger Hunt for Newcomers
- November 2017, Portland, OR: Drafting Your Core Values
- April 2017, Bahamas Reverse Exchange with Tanya Kelly of Global Conversations Development Centre: Project Social: Social Entrepreneurship and Language Learning (Grand Bahama, Cat Island, Eleuthera)
TESOL International Conference
- March, 2017 – Washington State Convention Center: Language is Local: Localized Images as Multilevel ESL Curriculum (Poster Session)
- March, 2014 – Portland Oregon Convention Center: Teacher Training in the Community Setting (Poster Session)
Race Talks Dialogue Series
- July 2016: What Does It Mean to Be White In America – Group performance & Book Release
Whiteness History Month at Portland Community College April 2016
- “The Problem of White Leadership” (Rock Creek, Cascade, PCC Southeast)
- “What Does It Mean To Be White In America” Collaborative Reading (Cascade)
Organizational Trainings
- Cultural Adjustment – Ciudad Mundo, Bolivia 2021 and onward
- Citizen Diplomacy Action Fund – Global Exchange 2020 Global Exchange Through the Pandemic and Beyond – Virtual Conference – Sept 16-19, 2020
- October, 2018 – Multnomah County Child Care Resource & Referral: “Working With Interpreters”
- September, 2018 – Multnomah County Child Care Resource & Referral: “Intercultural Communication at Work”
- August, 2018 – World Affairs Council Visiting Professionals Program – English Teachers from Asia
- August, 2017 – World Affairs Council Visiting Professionals Program – English Teachers from Asia
- May, 2017 – Linfield College Nursing Program: “Intercultural Communication Basics” (Zadok Taylor)
- April, 2015 – State Victim Assistance Academy: “Cultural Competence Basics”
- April, 2015 – Impact NW: “Practicing Allyship”
- January 2015 – Universidad Politecnica de Quintana Roo “Desarrollo de un Proyecto Impresarial Actual”
- November, 2014 – Confluence Environmental Center: “Responsible Power” Full Day
- September, 2014 – Habitat for Humanity: “Intercultural Communication for the Construction Site”
- September, 2014 – Impact NW “Intersecting Oppressions”
- July, 2014 – Jesuit Volunteer Corps “Responsible Power”
- June, 2014 – Oregon Campus Compact “Responsible Power”
- April, 2014 – YWCA Vancouver Staff Training
- March, 2014 – Free Geek Staff Workshop
- February, 2014 – Habitat for Humanity Staff Meeting
YWCA Social Justice Series
- Cultural Humility – September, 2014
- Mexican Food is American Food: America’s Changing Identity – July, 2013
- Intersecting Oppressions – August, 2013
Portland Literacy Council
Volunteer Literacy Tutor Conference (Reed College)
- 2024 – Putting English to Work: Supporting Employability with English Tutoring
- 2021 – We Are The Subject of the Sentence
- 2019 – Language Skills for Workplace Success and Reading and Writing Skills for US Citizenship Success (with SOAR)
- 2016 – When Grammar is a Verb: 5 Dynamic Ways to Develop Fluency
- 2015 – Health Literacy: Practicing Language While Improving Health
- 2014 – How Do I Know What They Need?
- 2013 – Health Literacy & From Classroom to Community
- 2012 – The Real World Is Multilevel
- 2011 – Dynamic Activities for Multilevel Settings
Awesome Tutor Workshop
- How Do You Know They Are Learning? – February, 2014
- English Outside the Classroom – May, 2014
Asian American Youth Leadership Conference – 2012 Concordia University
- Program Design Team
ORTESOL Conference
- Fall, 2024 – Putting English to Work
- Fall, 2023 – Making a Living & Making A Difference Teaching English / Tracking Progress for Individualized Proficiency Development
- Fall, 2021 – Stellar Presentations from TESOL 2021; with Immigrant Advocacy Workgroup: Covid 19 Resources, We Stand with Asian American Pacific Islander Community Resources
- Fall, 2019 – Team Member of ORTESOL Immigration Action Workgroup:
- Organizing Plenary: “Informing Instruction: Immigrant Leaders Speak Out”
- “We Count: Engaging English Language Learners in the 2020 Census” with Marc Czornij of US Census
- “Advocating For Your Students – In and Out of the Classroom” with Jessie Jimenez
- “How to Teach Know Your Rights – Teachers Share Classroom Experience” with Kathleen Holloway
- Fall, 2018 – “Immigration Policy & TESOL: Bridges & Walls” & “Counting Language Learners in Community Based ESOL Classes”
- Spring, 2018 – “Fireside Chat: Check out the Unconference in Peru with Patrik McDade”
- Fall, 2016 – Plenary Speaker (with Heidi Dryden of Portland ESL Network): “Giving Our Students Water Wings”
- 2014 – Roundtable: From Classroom to Community & Poster Session: Teacher Training in the Community Setting
- 2011 – The Whole Family Approach in Community ESOL
- 2010 – You and I Are Not Pronouns: Metalinguistic Analysis in the Community Based Classroom (roundtable)
Oregon Opportunity Network Industry Conference 2013
- What Do You Say When You Can’t Say Hello?
Tri-TESOL 2011
- Adult Spanish-English Dual Immersion
- The Whole Family Approach in Community ESOL
MECHA Statewide Conference April 29, 2011 – Forest Grove High School
- Por Que L@s Hispan@s No Enseñan El Inglés?
Here is a list of earlier trainings & workshops:
- April, 2006 – Teacher Training for English Teachers at the Central University of Veneuzuela
- February 28, 2009 – Teacher Training for Reed Teachers at VOZ
- March 1, 2009 – Teacher Training for Reed Teachers at VOZ
- April 11, 2009 – Bilingual Encuentro for Reed Teachers & Learners at VOZ
- May 17, 2009 – Teacher Training for Reed Teachers at VOZ
- June 28, 2009 – Teacher Training for Mt Hood VLT
- July 29, 2009 – Tutor Training for IRCO
- September 25, 2009 – Teacher Training for Mt Hood VLT
- October 7, 2009 – Tutor Training for IRCO
- December 17, 2009 – Latino Parent Engagement Meeting at Gresham High
- January 16, 2010 – Teacher Training for Mt Hood VLT
- March 27, 2010 – Teacher Training for Mt Hood VLT
- April 3, 2010 – Bilingual Encuentro with Adelante Mujeres
- April 17, 2010 – Interpreter Training with Liliana Bastres for Compassion N. Clackamas
- May 1, 2010 – Teacher Training for Mt Hood VLT @ Taborspace
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