Past Presentations

A Sample of Notable Readings and Presentations:

• Keynote Speaker, Pennsylvania Migrant Education Program and ESL Conference.  Harrisburg. PA

• Keynote Speaker, Brown Brothers, Harriman Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration. New York

• Featured Poet (with Hieu Minh Nguyen, Tarfia Faizullah, and Emmy Perez), Poetry & Migration Poetry Series, Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL. Co-sponsored by Letras Latinas  and Kundiman

• Featured Poet, Busboys and Poets, co-sponsored by Letras Latinas and Split This Rock

• Featured Poet, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art.  Smithsonian Latino Center Young Ambassadors Program. Washington D.C.

• Latino Poets Panelist, Sunken Garden Poetry Festival (featuring U.S. Poet Laureate, Juan Felipe Herrera) Farmington, CT

• Guest Poet, Notre Dame University 

• Featured Poet.  Tarrant County College, TX

• Featured Speaker. The Hotchkiss School, CT

• Keynote Speaker, University of New Haven, Latin American Students Association (LASA), CT

• Keynote Speaker, Hispanic Heritage Month, Rutgers University, NJ

• Featured Poet, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Washington D.C.

• Featured Speaker, Hispanic Heritage Month, Baker Botts International Law Firm, TX

• Keynote Speaker, Fairfield University, CT

• Proskauer Rose International Law Firm, NY

• Keynote Speaker. CT Immigrant Day Ceremony

• Featured Poet, Floricanto Poetry Festival, Barcelona, Spain

• Featured Speaker, University of Florida (largest student-run U.S. Hispanic Heritage celebration)

• Featured Speaker, Harvard University East Coast Chicano Student Forum Conference

• Featured Speaker, 6th Annual Latino Ivy League Conference, Cornell University

• Featured Poet Representing the U.S., El Salvador International Festival

• Featured Speaker, Hispanic Heritage Month, Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, TX

• Featured Speaker, Hispanic Heritage Month, Mountain View College, Dallas, TX

• Featured Speaker, Hispanic Heritage Month, Raritan Valley Community College, NJ

• Featured Speaker, Hispanic Heritage Month, Greenfield Community College, MA

• Keynote Speaker, Plattsburgh State University Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration, NY

• Panelist, Connecticut Book Festival

• Featured Poet, Riverwood Poetry Series

• Featured Reader, A Multilingual Reading in New York City

• Featured Reader, Connecticut Book Festival

• Featured Poet, Expressiones Cultural Center, CT

• Featured Poet, Julia de Burgos Park, CT

• Keynote Speaker, Hispanic Heritage Month, Pittsburg State University, KS

• Reader, Poetry Center in PCCC, Paterson, NJ

• Panelist, Modern Language Association Convention, PA

• Keynote Speaker, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Washington DC

• Presenter, Undocumented Hispanic Migration Conference, Connecticut College

• Keynote Speaker, Hispanic Heritage Month, Allegheny College, PA

• Featured Poet.  New York Bowery Poetry Club, NY.  Acentos Review Anniversary

• Featured Poet, University of Connecticut Avery Point

• Featured Poet, KGB Bar Literary Series, New York City

• Panelist,  College Board Educating Latinos Preparate Conference, FL

• Featured Poet, Gemini Ink, San Antonio, TX

• Featured Poet, Three Rivers Community College, CT

• Honoree, American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education Conference, TX

• Co-Reader, AWP ACENTOS: A Gathering and Celebration of Latino and Latina Poets

• Keynote Speaker, Langston Hughes Community Poetry Reading.  Mystic Arts Center

• Poetry Reader Acentos Bronx Poetry Showcase.  The Bruckner Bar and Grill

• Poetry Reader and panelist.  Newburyport Literary Festival

• Poetry Celebration Keynote Speaker, Cumberland County College, New Jersey

• Featured Poet, Hygienic Gallery, New London, CT

• Keynote Speaker, Hispanic Heritage Month, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, Connecticut

• Keynote Speaker, Hispanic Heritage Month, Wright State University

• Featured Poet, Connecticut College

• Keynote Speaker.  Hispanic Heritage Month.  Eastern Connecticut State University.  “Latinos as Aliens

• Presenter.  FWPCA Conference: “But Why Those Five Latino Films?” Las Vegas, NV

• Keynote Speaker, Hispanic Heritage Month, Capitol Community College.  “The Evolution of the Term “Latino’”

• Workshop Presenter.  National Association of Multicultural Education.  “From ESL Classroom to the Halls of Academia.”  Farmington, CT

• Workshop Presenter.  Yale University Institute for Latin American Studies. “Latino Literature and Authors from the Caribbean”

• Presenter.  Boston College Diversity Challenge.  “Teaching Intercultural Conflict: The Case of Latinos”