Photo By Eliana Mendez
Public Speaking, Workshops & Events
In addition to coaching offerings, I am available as a workshop facilitator, public speaker, creative writer and performer.
I have experience in a range of subjects from belonging, pluriculturalism, Latinx leadership, connected presence and burnout prevention.
My experiences inform my work. I can provide unique, culturally appropriate, neuro-affirming and LGBTQI affirming workshops to your team/org.
See below for examples of topics I can speak to plus highlights of past workshops and speaking engagements offered in English, Spanish or bilingual.
For organization requests, I can provide my Curriculum Vitae.
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An interactive creative writing workshop
An interactive workshop on belonging
Personal Narrative as Mixtape: Releasing Secret Tracks On The Album of Your Life
On redefining authenticity and executive presence for emerging leaders of color
On supporting mutlti-hyphenate and multidisciplinary creatives
On connected presence on and off the stage for performers and public speakers
On navigating liminal spaces as a mixed race person
On supporting neurodiverse folks to learn tools and tips for stress management
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I am a 2024 - 2025 teaching fellow for Literary Arts Writers In The Schools (WITS) program.
I hold an MFA in Creative Writing from Randolph College as a Blackburn Fellow (2024).
I have experience as a creative writing teacher for incarcerated youth through InsideOut Writers in Los Angeles, CA.
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“Somatic Sometimes for Writers: Nervous Systems for People Who Create With Words,” a virtual workshop on February 4, 2026, for the Literary Arts Writers in the Schools teacher community. Registration required.
"Sound Portals: Music and Writing the Sonic Self," free virtual creative writing workshop on Tuesday February 3, at 12 noon PT (ends by 1:30 p.m. PT).
In this generative writing workshop for all-levels, participants will enter music as a portal to personal narrative. How do our lush soundscapes shape us? How can music allow us to time-travel into our past and anchor our storytelling? How can the rhythmicity of song support our lyrical flow? Let’s play with personal narrative, the sonic, and the cosmic.
This event is sponsored by Mira Costa College and Glassless Minds Open Mic, with host and poet Karla Cordero.
Guest facilitator of somatic practices at Kim Moy’s Caregiver Wisdom free virtual support group for caregivers on Sunday, October 5, at 12 noon PT.
“Somatic Sometimes for Writers: Nervous Systems for People Who Create With Words,” a virtual workshop on Sunday March 2, 2025 at 10 a.m. PT, for the Randolph MFA community. Registration required.
“Somatic Sometimes for Mixed Community,” a virtual workshop on Sunday November 10, 2024 at 11 a.m. PT, available through a collaboration with Mixed in America's membership program.
"Somatic Sometimes," in person workshop at Atrium PDX, Breathe Building, August 24, 2024, 10 a.m. PT, Portland, Oregon.
“Personal Narrative as Mixtape: Releasing Secret Tracks On The Album of Your Life” September 5, 2023, offered virtual in collaboration with Glassless Minds & MiraCosta College.
“Centered In My Power: On Redefining Executive Presence and Authenticity: A bilingual Poderosa Voz pop-up workshop” March 2018, offered in-person, Portland, OR.
“Pertenezco: I Belong” A bilingual three-part creative writing workshop to delve into migration, displacement, pluri-cultural perspectives, the poetics of epigenetics and the resilience of humanity.
November 1, 2015 in the 9th annual international SIGNO Memoria y Identidad conference; Piriapolis, Uruguay, South America.
February 18th-19th, 2016 in Washington State University’s 12th Annual International Globalization, Diversity and Education conference: Moving the Dialogue on Race, Culture, and Equity forward in Education; Airway Heights, WA.
August 26, 2016 in ORCHWA (Oregon Community Health Workers Alliance) 2016 annual conference; Gresham, OR.
October 2016 in UNICA’s Voces de la Comunidad 2016 annual conference; Portland, OR.
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In conversation with Caro De Robertis for their new book: So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color. May 20, 2025, 7 p.m. PT. Powell's City of Books. 1005 W. Burnside Street. Portland, OR.
Co-facilitator at NSAC (National Sexual Assault Conference) for Latinx Leadership Roundtable, August 30, 2018, Anaheim, CA.
Presenter on Prevent Connect national webinar September 20, 2017 on “Addressing the Roots: Preventing Multiple Forms of Violence through Shared Underlying Factors”
Panelist as subject matter expert at Oregon Sexual Assault Task Force conference on October 10, 2016, Portland, Oregon.
Invited to co-lead a national webinar on violence as a public health issue for “The Movement” in September 2016 specifically to elevate racial justice equity lens, virtual.
Panelist and subject matter expert to represent violence as a public health issue at Senator Wyden’s Gun Violence round table discussion held on August 11, 2016.
Panelist on “From Silos to Community Alliances” panel on October 4, 2014 at Liberation Based Healing Conference, Lewis and Clark University, Portland, OR.