Presentations & Media

Recent engagements

• The Wikipedia Assignment: How Students and Faculty Are Shaping Public Understanding of Linguistics (with Helaine Blumenthal, Laurel Smith Stvan and Christine Schreyer. 

Panel presentation at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) Webinar, 27 March 2025, virtual.

• Contesting Boundaries and Identities in Applied Linguistics: Insights from  Asian Diaspora Scholars, Activists, and Allies 

(with Dr. Lina Hou, Dr. Phitsamay Uy, Fatima De Sousa, Dr. Judy Yu, Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Mx. Joie Ha, and Mx. Catharine McCord. Moderated by Drs. Christine M. Leider, PhD and Kevin Wong) 

Colloquium presentation at the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL), 24 March 2025, Denver, Colorado. 

https://www.aaal.org/2025-leider-and-wong-colloquium

• The Curious Case of the Deaf Immigrant (with Arielle Spellun, MD)

Presentation at the 41st Steven J. Parker Memorial Developmental-Behavioral Pediatric Conference: Clinical Problems in Primary Care,  Boston University, Massachusetts.

https://cme.bu.edu/parker2025#group-tabs-node-course-default2

• Making Multilingual Deaf Education Personal (with Naomi Caselli, PhD and Elana Pontecorvo)

Workshop presentation, Project Prism-Ed, 7 February 2025, California State University Northridge, California.

https://www.csun.edu/eisner-education/project-prism-ed

• Patterns WHAT: The Colorful Mosaic of the Experiences of Immigrant Deaf Students of Color

California Educators of the Deaf (CAL-ED) Conference, 25-27 October 2024, La Jolla, California.

https://www.cal-ed.org/conference

• Making Multilingual Deaf Education Personal

Professional development workshop, 9 October 2024, The Learning Center for the Deaf, Framingham, Massachusetts.

https://www.tlcdeaf.org/

• Crip Linguistics: A Panel in Honor of Dr. John Henner

      Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theory (FEAST), 6-8 August 2024, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

      https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/feast2024/

• 2024 High School Graduation Speaker

      Wisconsin School for the Deaf, 7 June 2024, Delavan, Wisconsin.

      https://wesp-dhh.wi.gov/wsd/

• Myth of the Good ASL: A Reckoning of Deaf Native Signerism
  Sign Fest 2024, 11 May 2024, University of Connecticut, Hartford, Connecticut.
  https://sites.google.com/view/signfest2024/home

• The Curious Case of a Multilingual and Multiethnic Deaf Immigrant
  ASL Lecture Series, 14 March 2024, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

• From Surviving to Soaring: Languaging as Situated in Culture and Community
  National ASL Roundtable Conference, 26-28 October 2023, Delavan, Wisconsin.
  https://sites.google.com/wsd.../17th-aslrt-wisconsin/home

• Immigrant Deaf Students of Color
  National Deaf Education Conference (NDEC). 22-24 June 2023, Riverside, California.
  https://deafeducation.us/2023-conference/

• Languaging in Migration (with Nora Duggan)
  MobileDeaf Closing Conference: Deaf Mobility Studies. 2-3 June 2023, Edinburgh, UK.
  https://mobiledeaf.org.uk/conference/

• Immigrant Deaf Students of Color: Raciolinguistic Discourses on the Axes of Accommodation, Acculturation, and Racialization
  American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting (AERA). 4-5 May 2023, virtual.
  https://www.aera.net/Events-Meetings/2023-Annual-Meeting