Speaking & Teaching
Engaging audiences to see the world — and themselves — beyond a human-only perspective.
I deliver keynotes, lectures, and workshops that bridge design, ethics, and forward-thinking. My talks blend research with lived insight, inviting audiences to expand their perspectives and leave with actionable ideas.
Signature Topics
Animal-Centered Innovation: What design looks like when animals are co-creators, not afterthoughts.
Care as a Design Principle: What it means to design with responsibility, empathy, and hard tradeoffs.
Motherhood & Autonomy: Rethinking design, policy, and culture from the perspective of solo mothers by choice.
Multispecies Futures: How design can expand wellbeing and connection across humans, animals, and environments.
Representative Engagements
Workshops
Human Behavior Change for Animals (HBCA) — Applied ACD tools to welfare contexts.
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GANSO Workshop — Reframed advocacy programs through animal-centered design.Audience: Animal welfare professionals, behavior scientists.
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Panels & Public Conversations
NerdNite — Exploring design beyond the human lens.
Knowle West Media Centre – Forms of Intelligence — Panelist on interspecies design and ethics.
Universidad Católica de Pereira — Conversation on design, animals, and care.
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Academic Talks & Lectures
Georgia Institute of Technology — ACI guest lecture
Universidad de los Andes — Multispecies design workshop
Illinois Institute of Technology — Ethics & interspecies design seminar.
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Let’s Start the Conversation
From classrooms to conferences, from workshops to panels — I help audiences see design as a shared practice between species.
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