Presentations
2021 When Design is not the Hero: Supporting Elections Administrators in 2020 PIVOT 2021 Dismantling/Reassembling: Tools for Alternative Futures.
2021 Rehearsing Natural Disasters. CIVIC Innovation: Phase I - Closing Event.
2021 Replicating the Unpredictable: Board Games as Prototypes for Wildfire Evacuations. CUMULUS Roma, 2021
2020 Reflections on Voting Project. Invited Speaker. Monday Morning Meeting. Stanford d.school. November 9, 2020
2020 Reflections on Voting Interventions. Invited Speaker. Policy Practicum in the Time of COVID. Invited Speaker, November 4, 2020
2020 Prototyping Resilience: Using Games to Engage Communities in Disaster Response. Presenter. Relating Systems and Design 9 (RSD9), Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India
2019 Transformational Research in Engineering Post-Graduate Studies. National Science Foundation: Germination Workshop (2019), Invited Speaker, Boise State University, August 15-16, 2019
2019 Creativity and Engineering Workshop, Invited Speaker, Boise State University, Boise State University
2019 Red Couch Charrette. Invited Participant. Stanford University, April 10, 2019.
2019 Redefining Prototyping for Complex Systems, Invited Speaker, American University of Beirut. American University of Beirut, Beirut Lebanon, March 27, 2019
2018 Design Thinking and Wicked Problems, Invited Talk, American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
2018 Scaffolding the Ether: Supporting the Creative Exploration of Ambiguous Territory. Lily Conference on Teaching and Learning, Anaheim, CA
2017 Design Field Notes: Low Fidelity Prototypes. Complex Systems. Jacobs Center, UC Berkeley. September 18, 2017
2017 Sustainability Charrette. Invited guest, Exploratorium - San Francisco, CA
2017 Developing Complex Systems With Low-Fidelity Prototypes. AIGA Design Educators Conference - Converge. University of Southern California
2017 Design in Higher Ed: Inaugural Convening. Invited Participant, Southern Methodist University, January 26th - 28th, 2017
2017 Prototyping Interconnection: Frameworks for Moving from Thought to Action. California State University, East Bay Queer Conference
2017 CoPED Knowledge Base. Invited Speaker, Imagining America Conference, University of California, Davis, October 12, 2017
2017 Design Demonstration. Last Festival, San Jose, CA, April 7 - 8th, 2017
2016 Creating a Culture of Welcome - Video presentation International Symposium on Academic Makerspaces (ISAM). MIT, Cambridge, MA
2015 Prototyping Culture/Prototyping Classrooms. Nueva Innovative Learning Conference. Menlo Park, CA
2014 Understanding Prototyping. Capital One Design Thinking Deep Dive.
2011 How to Make a Pair of Ballet Flats. Invited Speaker. Maker Faire, San Mateo, CA
2010 Design Thinking Workshop. PICNIC, Amsterdam
2009 Collision or Collaboration: The Secret To Design Studio Bliss. South by Southwest (SXSW). Austin, TX
2009 Using Research To Create Breakthrough Product. SIIA: Software Summit and Codie Awards. San Francisco, CA
2009 How to Make a Pair of Ballet Flats. Invited Speaker. Maker Faire, San Mateo, CA
2008 How to Hack Shoes. Invited Speaker. Maker Faire, San Mateo, CA