Speaking
I provide expertise and advisory services on AI Futures, Sustainable Design, CARICOM, AI Governance, Computational Rhetoric and Digital Identity, as well as Design & Design Thinking Frameworks. Additionally, I lecture at the university level in Design Strategy and Rhetoric and am the co-founder of Human Tech Futures, focusing on AI Futures, Policymaking, and Design Thinking. You can always find my my most recent talks listed below, with more upon requests:
St. Lucia: The West Indies (June 3rd to 7th, 2024): Caribbean Studies Association 48th conference
Topic: "Navigating the Digital Wave: Safeguarding Caribbean Identity in the Age of AI & Emergent Technology"
Theme: "CSA at 50: Caribbean Development Sustainability - The Convergence of Technology, People, Planet, Peace, Prosperity & Partnerships"
Boston, USA (April 18th, 2024): MIT Panel Talk
Topic: "How to Govern AI"
UK - hybrid event (March 18th, 2024): World Association for Sustainable Development
Topic: "Inclusive Futures: Sustainable Technology for Gender Empowerment"
Toronto, Canada (March 13th, 2024): Design Meets
Topic: "Co-Creating AI Futures: Design, Ethics, and Citizen Engagement"
Maryland/DC (November 16-19, 2023): NCA 109th Annual Convention
Topic: "Sex After Technology: The Rhetoric of Health Monitoring Apps & the Reversal of Roe vs. Wade
Other Selected Publications
June 2024: RQS Journal Article (Special Issue): Sex After Technology: The Rhetoric of Health Monitoring Apps & the Reversal of Roe vs. Wade
June 2024: "Navigating the Digital Wave: Safeguarding Caribbean Identity in the Age of AI & Emergent Technology" a talk at the Caribbean Studies Association held in St. Lucia
April 2024: MIT - “How to Govern AI” panel
April 2024: "Inclusive Futures: Sustainable Technology for Gender Empowerment," World Association of Sustainable Development
Nov 2022: ARSTM Presentation: Sex After Technology: Rhetoric of Health Monitoring Apps & the Reversal of Roe vs. Wade
June 27, 2022: Presenter - HCII 2022 – "Conversation Towards AI-HCI Heuristics"
May 16, 2022: Panel - “AI 5 Ways” – University of Waterloo, Critical Media Lab
March 28-31, 2022: Guest Speaker - “Environmental Life Cycle Assessment in Design” conference. “Dashboards and UI/UX for LCA Data integration,” hosted by NJIT
2021: IEEE - ISTAS. Co-chair: “A Conversation with Safiya Noble – Technology, Race & AI”
2021: IEEE - ISTAS. Presenter: “AI Literacy – A Cross Disciplinary Exploration”
2021 (March 12-14): BLND Conference (University of Waterloo's Stratford School of Interaction and Business), Keynote Speaker – “Sustainable UX – What Progress Have We Made as Designers?”
2021: Workshop Chair, “Feminism, Social Justice, and AI” Workshop, hosted by the University of Waterloo Philosophy Department, ON, Canada.
2020: DESIGNTO – Speaker: “Bias in Design” - Event Women that Make, Create, and Innovate (Winner of the People’s Choice: Favourite Event DESIGNTO Festival)
2020: Presenter “Women in the Future of Work” – Humber College, ON
2011: User Experience in the Age of Sustainability (highly cited/academic text)