Public speaking
Presentations
“Border AI violence and the limits of regulatory oversight” - ai-skeptics, Nova School of Business and Economics, Virtual, November 2025.
“The bordered and bordering violence of artificial intelligence” - Mozilla Festival, Barcelona, November 2025.
“Settler-colonialism and the necropolitics of AI” - The Politics of AI: Governance, Resistance, Alternatives, London, September 2025.
“Beyond racial bias: The structural injustice of carceral biometrics” - Annual University of Plymouth Criminology Conference, Virtual, June 2025 [Slides]
“Beyond insights: Rethinking the role of researchers as facilitators of organizational wisdom” - Advancing Research Conference, Virtual, March 2025
“Trauma responsiveness by design: Towards an ethic of care and accountability in design research” - Design Research Society Conference, Virtual, June 2024 [Slides]
“Adding friction to mandatory reporting: The case for survivor-centered research” - Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference, Chicago, October 2023 [Slides]
“A typology of participation in participatory research” - Advancing Research, Virtual, March 2023 [Slides]
“Pro-Palestinian anarchism: Far from an oxymoron” - Anarchist Studies Conference, Virtual, August 2022 [Slides]
“Unraveling the links between design and policing” - Allied Media Conference, Virtual, July 2022 [Slides]
“Shifting power in research” - University of Pennsylvania’s Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy, Virtual, June 2022
“Ceding power in design” - DotGov Design Conference, Virtual, May 2021 [Slides]
“Learning and unlearning design” (Keynote) - Interventions, Virtual, April 2021
“Lessons from my (design) trials and tribulations” - Design Justice Network, Virtual, March 2021 [Video]
“Speaking as a means of critical reflection” - Women Talk Design, Virtual, December 2020 [Video]
“Authentic connection in BIPOC communities” - AIA Community Engagement Forum, Virtual, October 2020 [Slides]
“Rapid prototype planning” - CIID Lightning Talks, Virtual, May 2020
“Lessening the research burden on vulnerable communities” - Advancing Research, Virtual, March 2020 [Video, Slides]
“Conducting research with vulnerable communities“ - Joint Futures, Helsinki, September 2019 [Video, Slides]
“The power of proverbial expression in design research” - Design Research, Melbourne, March 2018 [Audio, Slides]
“ولو أنه عالم الرجال [Even if it is a world of men]” - SheDesigner, Amman, January 2018
“Exploratory research in UX design” - UX Burlington, Burlington, June 2017 [Video, Slides]
“Sahel Shake,” Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, February 2013 [Slides]
“Made in the Lower East Side” - TEDxDUMBO, Brooklyn, October 2012
“Research in design for development” - Better World by Design, Providence, September 2012 [Slides]
Panels
“Is AI holding up a broken mirror? SWANA and the fragmentation of AI ambitions” - Mozilla Festival, March 2022
“Design as resistance” - Critical UX: Critique As A Signal of Hope, Virtual, November 2021
“Trauma-informed research” - Rosenfeld Videoconference, Virtual, October 2021
“Researching together: A Discussion on participatory approaches to design” - Radical Research Summit, Virtual, September 2021
“Content strategy for change” - Confab, Virtual, May 2021
“Race in the field: Navigating user research as designers of color” - Independent Event, Virtual, January 2021
“Trauma-informed design” - Restorative Design Conference, Virtual, October 2020 [Video, Slides]
“Doing design remotely: A discussion in the time of COVID-19” - Designing Tech for International Aid & Development, Virtual, March 2020 [Video]
“What it means to be a healthy designer” - SF Design Week, San Francisco, June 2019
“Are designers becoming the new activists?” - General Assembly, San Francisco, June 2017
“How did you get into service design?” - Service Experience Chicago, Virtual, February 2016
Panel moderation
“Humanitarian data, information and AI: Exploitation and possibility” - Stockholm Internet Forum, Stockholm, May 2023
“A better approach to child welfare: From within or without the system?” - Juvenile Law Center Conversation with Sixto Cancel and Dorothy Roberts, Philadelphia, May 2022 [Video]
Workshop facilitation
“Understanding youth perspectives on LGBTQIA+ caregiver inclusion” - National Independent Living Conference, Denver, August 2023
“Unpacking experiential hurdles to prevention efforts” - National Independent Living Conference, Denver, August 2023
“Design for social impact” - Independent Event, Beirut, December 2018
“What’s a rapid prototyping plan and how to make one?” - UC Berkeley CMYK Designathon, Berkeley, October 2018
“Human-centered design” - 3EA Education in Emergencies: Evidence for Action, Istanbul, October 2018
“Prototyping for service design” - Lab@OPM's Summer Design School, Oakland, June 2018
“A new handy storyboarding tool” - Service Design Global Conference, Amsterdam, October 2016 [Slides]
“Service blueprinting for improved user experience” - Design Thinking: DC, Washington, DC, March 2014 [Slides]