PRESENTATIONS
Role: Presenter
Event: Society for Applied Anthropology, 2024 Annual Meeting
Description: Strengthening Partnerships with Indigenous Shuar Communities through Community-Engaged Learning and Research in the Ecuadorian Amazon: Ten Years of Transformations. The primary goal of this presentation was to share the results of an ongoing ten-year study (before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic) of strengthening partnerships through community-engagement with four Indigenous Shuar communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon. It reports on assessing the effectiveness of transformational relationships that emerge during community-engaged learning and research experiences. This applied anthropological fieldwork experience is founded on a broader decolonizing framework that embeds Indigenous epistemologies and methodologies through a community-driven collaborative process called Minga (collective action and cooperation). Results of this process have led to strengthening partnerships through shared investments and accountability, reciprocity, and humility.
Year: 2024
Role: Panelist
Event: UN Partnership Forum: Shift the Power for Post-COVID SDG Progress
Description: The UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) invited all relevant stakeholders to the 2023 Partnership Forum with the theme: “Accelerating the recovery from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and the full implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at all levels.” Our session argued in favor of community-centered capacities, resources and decision-making power as the most resilient structure for global shocks like the recent pandemic.
Year: 2023
Role: Presenter
Event: THP Global Learning Event
Description: This was an internal learning session of participatory practices in Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning, with specific examples of its application in Malawi via partnerships with Water First and Microsoft. Presentation slides can be found here.
Year: 2023
Role: Panelist
Event: A Way Forward: Dismantling Systemic Oppression
Description: Part of a series of conversations about how, as individuals and a community, we can all push beyond the idea of being racist or not racist and instead reimagine and transform ourselves, our ideals, our policies, and institutions into one that is antiracist. This particular session looked to the future while providing concrete ideas, tools, and solutions of how individuals and communities can work to dismantle systemic oppression.
Year: 2021
Role: Presenter
Event: International Association for Research on Service-Learning & Community Engagement (IARSLCE) Virtual Gathering
Session Title: Bridging the COVID-19 Engagement Gap with Indigenous Shuar Communities through Virtual Community-Based Learning and Research
Year: 2021
Role: Presenter
Event: Engagement Scholarship Consortium (ESC) Virtual 2021 Conference
Session Title: Indigenizing Community Engaged Learning and Research: Lessons in Justice and Sustainability
Year: 2021
Role: Presenter
Event: American Evaluators Association’s (AEA) 35th Annual Conference
Session Title: Overview of CLD Assessment Tool and Quality Appraisal Tool
Year: 2021