revolution is love & i be healing it through heartwork
Motivational Speaking Topics
finding your heartwork,
turning pain into power, trauma into healing,
the importance of higher education,
the importance of family/community support in success,
the power in pursuing passions,
why teaching poetry is necessary for survival,
publishing/writing,
pursuing writing as a career,
working with Indigenous youth,
writing as tool for healing,
decolonizing the narrative (the importance of storytelling)
the role mentorship plays in opportunities,
creating the spaces we need in life,
starting a literary journal,
the advantages and challenges of majoring in English,
and many other topics.
Examples of Previous Talks
TEDxABQ – Igniting Healing. Popejoy Hall at University of New Mexico.
What’s Fear Got to Do with It? – 26th annual Basketball Against Drugs and Alcohol (BAAD) Tournament. Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. Pendleton, OR.
Keynote Speaker. Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada, Inc. 48th Annual Convention. Reno. NV.
Featured Artist. COLORES KNME New Mexico PBS. Albuquerque, NM
Keynote Speaker. YWCA New Mexico Women in Leadership. Albuquerque, NM.
2018 –Keynote. MMIW Awareness Week, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD
2018 –Keynote. Urban Native Education Conference, Chicago, IL
2018 – Keynote. American Educational Research Association’s Indigenous Peoples of Americas (IPA) and Indigenous Peoples of the Pacific (IPP) Pre-conference, NYC
2018 – Keynote. American College Personnel Association (ACPA), Houston, TX
2017 – Escalante Canyon Arts Festival, Escalante, UT
2017 –Building Bridges, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD
2017 – Poetry Out Loud State Finals, Bismarck, ND
2017 – Native Education Raising Dedicated Students (NERDS), Jackson, CA
2016 – Native American Community Academy, Albuquerque, NM.