Deaf Visitors and Accessibility in Museums
Improving the Visitor Experience for Visitors with Physical Disabilities
2024 – Chesapeake Crossroads Heritage Area Training (Annapolis, MD; panelist)
2019 – Four Rivers Heritage Area Training (Annapolis, MD; panelist)
Roundtable: Access to ISL Programs and Museums for Everyone
2022 – Access to ISL Capacity Building Institute, University of Washington (virtual; panelist)
Audio Audacity: Bold Steps in Accessibility, Audience Impact & Strategy for Audio Content
2021 – Museum Computer Network Conference (virtual; panelist)
Critical Disability Theory and Achieving Deaf-Friendly Museums
2021 – Museum Studies Research Week, University of Leicester (virtual)
Digital Accessibility and Inclusion: Get Inspired!
2021 – Museum Learning Hub (virtual; panelist; video available)
DEAF-GAIN in Academic Museums
2020 – Association of Academic Museums and Galleries Conference (virtual)
2020 – Southeastern Museums Conference (virtual)
Eyes on Shakespeare: An Accessible First Folio Exhibit
2017 – Association of Academic Museums and Galleries Conference (Eugene, Oregon)
Creating Deaf-Friendly Museum Exhibits
2016 – Smithsonian Institution PEEPS Exhibit Fair (Washington, DC)
Deaf-Led Museums and Archives
Deaf Methods of Museum Operation
2022 – Deaf History International Conference (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Museum X Accessibility: deaf people’s perspectives
2021 – Tsukuba University of Technology International Exchange Lecture (virtual; writeup available [in Japanese])
Humanizing Deaf Experiences and Studies by Divesting and Diversifying the Archives
2020 – Dean Hopper Conference (virtual; panelist)
The American Experience of a Deaf Museum
2017 – Slovenský deň nepočujúcich (Trnava, Slovakia)
Objects: Collecting, preserving, interpreting, and Display
2016 – Capturing Deaf Heritage Day (Washington, DC; panelist)
Deaf History and Culture
Deaf and Hard of Hearing Leaders Leading the Way Into the Next Generation
2024 – National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (Springfield, VA; keynote)
Deaf Women’s History in America
2022 – Tsukuba University of Technology Deaf Education Content Development Project (virtual; panelist; video available)
Beyond CODA: Representation for People with Disabilities
2022 – Worldcon – Chicon 8 (virtual; panelist)
How we learn: Looking at why it was a natural history museum that twice played host to the epicentre of international eugenics
2021 – Dismantling Eugenics: Legacies/Reckonings/Futures Conference, Anti-Eugenics Project (virtual; panelist; video available)
bELL/gALLAUDET, eUGENICS, AND THE dEAF cOMMUNITY
2021 – Legacies of Eugenics in New England Conference, Hutchins Center for African and African-American Research, Harvard University (virtual; panelist)
Transforming the Narrative: Battiste, Foster, and the Status Quo
2018 – Deaf Studies Transformations Conference (Washington, DC)
Gallaudet University’s Role in Historic Northeast Washington DC
2017 – Smithsonian Associates Lecture Series (Washington, DC)
Platt H. Skinner and the Founding of Gallaudet University
2014 – Celebrating 150 Years of Visionary Leadership Symposium (Washington, DC; video available)