American Historical Association, January 2026
Roundtable: “Indigenous Chicago: Community-Engaged Curriculum Development as Public History” with Rose Miron and Aaron Golding
Organization of American Historians, April 2025
Paper: “Curricular Change through Community-Engaged Resource Development”
Panel: Using Indigenous History to Challenge American Memories
Other panelists: Jennifer Guiliano and Elizabeth Rule | Chaired by Jennifer Guiliano
Chicago American Indian Community Collaborative Urban Native Education Conference, March 2025
Session: “Indigenous Chicago: Next Steps in Making the Invisible Visible in K-12 Social Studies,” co-presented with Haku Blaisdell
National Council for the Social Studies – College and University Faculty Assembly, November 2024
Paper: “Realizing Rematriation for Social Studies Education,” as part of the Turtle Island Social Studies Collective
Panel: Got motivation / I done found me a new foundation: New Approaches to History and Historiography
Other panelists: Joanna Batt and Michael Joseph, Sandra Schmidt, Greg Simmons | Chaired by Alexandra Thrall with commentary from Ginney Norton
American Studies Association, November 2024
Paper: “Indigenous Chicago: A Community-Engaged Collaboration toward Curricular Change”
Panel: Grounding the Unsettling of Political Spaces
Other panelists: Sydney Beckmann, Jason Scott Cooke, Andrew Friedman | Chaired by Leah Kuragano
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, June 2024
Roundtable: Indigenous Chicago: A Community-Engaged Approach to Narrative Change
Other panelists: Rose Miron, Raphael Wahwassuck, Teagan Dreyer
American Educational Research Association, April 2024
Div K Invited Vice Presidential Session: The Indigenous Chicago Project: Community-Engaged Curriculum Development
Other panelists: Megan Bang, Mary Eileen Skerrett, Anna Lees, Eve Tuck, Jennifer Brant
Organization of American Historians, April 2024
Roundtable: Building Public History Projects that Serve Native Communities: The Indigenous Chicago Project
Other panelists: Rose Miron, Josee Starr, Eric Hemenway
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, May 2023
Roundtable: Identifying the Utility of ‘Survivance’ within Studies of Indigenous Health
Other panelists: Jill Doerfler, Danielle Gartner, Rachel Wilbur, and Joe Gone
Chicago American Indian Community Collaborative Urban Native Education Conference, April 2023
Presentation with Jennifer Michals and Rose Miron: “Indigenous Chicago: Making the Invisible Visible in K-12 Illinois Social Studies”
American Educational Research Association, April 2023
Paper: “Teaching Desires-Based Histories in the College Classroom”
Panel: Centering Students’ Racialized Experiences: Shifting Paradigms in History Education
Other panelists: Sohyun An, Eliana Castro, Krista Cortes, Muna Saleh, Yianella Blanco | Chaired by Maribel Santiago | Tadashi Dozono, Discussant
National Council for the Social Studies, November 2022
Paper with Leilani Sabzalian: “This Bridge Called My Back: Engaging Feminisms of Color in Social Studies Education”
Other panelists: Kristen Duncan, Van Anh Tran, Hanadi Shatara, Amanda Vickery, Damaris Dunn, Tianna Dowie-Chin, Melissa Williams, Shakealia Finley, Muna Saleh, Tiffany Mitchell Patterson, Crystal Simmons, Natasha Murray-Everett, Eliana Castro, Cinthia Salinas, Delandrea Hall, Brittany Jones, Denisha Jones, Rebecca Geller, ArCasia James-Gallaway
Organization of American Historians, March 2022
Paper: “Reconceiving Schooling: Centering Indigenous Experimentation in Indian Education History”
Panel: Teaching Ingenuity: Indigenous Repurposing of Concepts in American Education
Other panelists: Matthew Villeneuve, Sarah Sadlier | Chaired by Bethany Hughes with commentary from Kevin Whalen
Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association, August 2021
Paper: “Lessons from Indigenous Educators’ Interventions in Schooling”
Panel: (Re)Centering Pedagogies and Perspectives in Teaching History with Indigenous and Diverse Community Voices
Other panelists: Farina King, Ernestine Berry, Summer Cherland, Mary Klann, Rebecca Wellington
American Society for Environmental History, April 2021
Roundtable: Indigenous Systems of Relationality Across Environmental History and Indigenous Futures
Other panelists: Michael Dockry, Meixi, Lyana Patrick, Brett Ramey, Leilani Sabzalian
Organization of American Historians, April 2021
Roundtable: Beyond the Treaty of 1821: Enduring Midwestern Indigenous Histories and Presence
Other panelists: Kasey Keeler, Doug Kiel, Jacob Lee, and Jameson Sweet | Chaired by Michael J. Witgen
