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Department of Recreation,
Parks, and Tourism

College of Health and
Human Services

(Photo: Nina Roberts)
Visitors to Rocky Mountain National Park

Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education (AEOE). “Multiculturalism in a changing world.” 2009 Statewide Spring Conference. Walker Creek Ranch, CA. (April 24-26, 2009).

“Whiteness and the Crayola® Box:  Perspectives on (Anti)Racism from a Different Color”.  Respondent [Speech] presented at the George Butler Lecture of the Leisure Research Symposium: Dialogues on Whiteness, Leisure and (Anti)Racism. National Recreation & Park Association Congress, Baltimore, MD (October 15, 2008). 

“Inside and out? How multiculturalism in a changing society can influence experiential education”. Kurt Hahn Address at the Association for Experiential Education, 35th Annual International Conference. Little Rock, AR (November 8-11, 2007).

“Redefining Wilderness through the Voices of Diversity” – Opening speaker for 2007 the Redefining Wilderness Symposium.  Sponsored by the Bay Area Wilderness Training and hosted by the SFSU Eco-Students (April 5, 2007)

“Culture in a changing world: Universal by design and vital to our success”. Association for Experiential Education; West Regional Conference: Opening speaker. Santa Barbara, CA (March 2, 2007).

“Exploring the relevancy of parks and outdoor recreation for the African American & community”.  Department of Recreation, Parks and Tourism Sciences.  Texas A & M University.  National speaker series presenter in honor of Black History Month. College Station, TX (February 10, 2006).

“The relevancy of parks and outdoor recreation across cultures: Research update, emerging trends, and community outreach”. California Roundtable on Recreation, Parks and Tourism, General Membership Meeting, East Bay Regional Parks, Oakland, CA. (January 19, 2006).

“Cultural competency in outdoor leadership.” Women’s Outdoor Leadership Conference (8th Annual WOLC, Outward Bound).   Also planned, recruited panelists, and moderated the Women of Color in Experiential Education panel the following day (March, 2004).

“Components of the outdoor trip:  What really happens?”  The 5th Biennial Coalition 2000 for Education in the Outdoors Research Symposium.  Keynote Panel Presentation.  My contributing segment was research recommendations for future (January, 2000).

“An integrative review of the literature on women in the outdoors” – The 4th Biennial Coalition for Education in the Outdoors Research Symposium. Co-presented with Dr. Karla Henderson (January 1998).


“Cultivating connections, Uniting our region” – Association for Experiential Educaiton, Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference (March, 1998).

“Where do we go from here?” – Women’s Institute Day Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, MA.  Participated with other women alumni on a keynote panel address to the college students, faculty, and staff (1996).

Last updated April 2009