
- 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.
- 2016 – Annual Tulalip Wellness Conference, Tulalip, WA.
- 2016 – Native Education Forum, Colorado State University. Fort Collins, CO
- 2016 – Symposium of the American Indian, Northeastern State Univ. Tahlequah, OK.
- 2016 – Building Bridges Conference, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD.
- 2016 – Las Vegas Higher Education, Las Vegas, NV.
- 2016 – St. Louis College of Pharmacy, St. Louis, MO.
- 2016 – Indigenous Book Fair, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.
- 2016 – American Indian College Fund. Denver, CO
- 2015 – Humboldt State University. Arcata, CA
- 2015 – United States Department of State. Washington, DC
- 2015 – University of Illinois-Chicago. Chicago, IL
- 2015 – Fanshawe College. London, Ontario, Canada
- 2015 – Western University. London, Ontario, Canada
- 2015 – Cal Poly Pomona. Pomona, CA
- 2015 – National Indian Education Association. Portland, OR
- 2015 – Montessori in the Mountains. Estes Park, CO
- 2015 – Keynote, STEAM-H, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.
- 2015 – Keynote, 3rd Annual Prevention Conference. Tulalip, WA
- 2015 – Presenter, Youth Event. Leech Lake, MN
- 2015 – Panelist, Indigenous Writers Caucus, Association of Writers and Writing Programs Annual Conference. Minneapolis, MN
- 2015 – Panelist, Diversity in Publishing, Association of Writers and Writing Programs Annual Conference. Minneapolis,MN
- 2015 – Presenter, Beyond Bars: Working With and Against the Carceral System through Creative Writing, Color of Violence 4 Conference. Chicago, IL
- 2015 – Featured Presenter, Basketball Against Drugs and Alcohol (BAAD) Tournament. Mission, OR.
- 2015 – Featured Artist, Red Lake Middle School. Red Lake, MN
- 2015 – Presenter, Sing Our Rivers Red, NDSU Fargo, ND.
- 2015 – Keynote Speaker, Native Education Raising Dedicated Students (NERDS) 2nd Annual Conference. Jackson, California
- 2015 – Keynote Speaker, Nevada Department of Education Annual American Indian/Alaska Native Education Summit. Reno, NV.
- 2014 – Keynote Speaker, Gates Millennium Scholars Leadership Conference. Virginia.
- 2014 – Keynote Speaker, Nixyaawii Community School Graduation. Pendleton, OR.
- 2014 – Keynote Speaker, Native American Graduation. University of Colorado at Boulder. Boulder, CO.
- 2014 -Guest Speaker, Southwest Writers Meet Up. Albuquerque, NM.
- 2014 – Featured Artist, COLORES KNME New Mexico PBS. Albuquerque, NM.
- 2014 – Guest Speaker, 26th Annual Basketball Against Alcohol & Drugs (BAAD) Tournament. Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. Oregon
- 2014 – Keynote Speaker, YWCA New Mexico Women in Leadership Brunch. Albuquerque, NM.
- 2013 – Keynote speaker, Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada, Inc. 48th AnnualConvention. Reno, NV
- 2013 – Proceed with Conviction Nixyaawii Community School Umatilla Reservation OR