"Food Justice as a Complex Problem: Focusing on the social, political, and economic structures that create food injustice." Kitchen Table Talk. ECOstudents. San Francisco State University, 2011.
"Eating the Front Yard: A Lecture on Urban Agriculture." American Studies Department.
California State University Fullerton, 2011.
"Eating the Front Yard: Exploring community and civic engagement in the San Francisco Bay Area." Wednesday Forum Events. Department of Geography and Human Environmental Studies. San Francisco State University, 2011.
"Eating the Front Yard: An interdisciplinary perspective on growing food in the city." Keynote Address. National Association of Black Geologists and Geophysicists. San Francisco, CA, 2011.
"Eating the Front Yard: An interdisciplinary perspective on growing food in the city." Association for Integrative Studies, 33rd Annual Conference. Grand Rapids State University, Grand Rapids, MI, 2011.
"Veiled Practices: The political ecology of an AAA meeting." American Anthropological Association, 109th Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA, 2010.
(with T. Augsburg) "Intellectual Autobiography II: Sustaining integrative learning with electronic portfolios in a capstone seminar." Association for Integrative Studies, 32th Annual Conference. San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, 2010.
"Greening Women: consumption, environmentalism, community." Interdisciplinary Seminar on Feminist Scholarship, Women, and Gender Studies. San Francisco State University, 2009.
"Placing Ourselves Creatively: The Intellectual Autobiography as a Gateway for Integrative Learning." Association for Integrative Studies, 2009.
"Applying Political Ecology to the Environmental Justice Movement." As If Equity Mattered conference. Environmental Science, Policy & Management. University of California, 2009.
"Ecovillages and the Emergence of the Green Lifestyle." American Anthropological Association. San Francisco, CA, 2008."
"Earth Team: The Emergence of Environmental Peer Education." Association for Integrative Studies, 2008.
"Hurrican Katrina and the Convenience of Inconvenience: Teaching with Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth." Association for Integrative Studies, 2008.
"Building a Green Lifestyle: Using Community to Create Sustainability in an Ecological Co-Housing Community." Ethnic Studies Program, Santa Clara University, 2007
"Creating Green Communities with Green Design." Department of Design and Industry, San Francisco State University, 2007
"Green Technology in an EcoVillage." Sustainble Transformations of the Humanities and Technology Association, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, 2007
"When Being Green Distracts from Being Just." School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, 2007
"Ecotopia: Connecting People With Nature in a U.S. Cohousing Community." Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, Palo Alto, 2005
"Constructing a Green Lifestyle." Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 2004
"Anthropological Research in an Ecological Cohousing Community: A Day in the Life of an Ecovillage." Unitarian Universalist Church, Binghamton, 2003
"Back to Nature? Constructing Nature and Community in Upstate New York." Annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC., 2001
"Living Lightly Upon the Earth: Constructing Nature and Community in New York." Department of Anthropology, Binghamton University, 2001
