SPEAKER

Upcoming Engagements

• “Recognizing Our Influence, Success and Essence: Why We Matter”. Women of Color Summit, Niagara Falls, NY, June 5-6, 2024.

Selected Past Engagements

• “Strange Renderings of Nature: Working to Dismantle White Wilderness and Dignify Black Biophilia”. Nature and Health Symposium, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, May 1, 2024.

• “White Men’s Roads Through Black Men’s Homes: How Environmental Racism Shaped New York Roadways and Cities”. 2024 Speak Life! Health Equity Conference. Common Ground Health, Asbury First United Methodist Church, Rochester, NY, April 25, 2024.

• “Nature for All: Increasing Access to Nature Among Diverse Populations”. Arts and Science of Health Promotion Conference, Hilton Head, SC, April 8-12. 2024.

• “From Negro Removal to Highway Removal: Understanding How Environmental Racism Continues To Shape Buffalo”. East Side Parkways Coalition, Frank E. Merriweather, Jr. Branch Library, Buffalo, NY, April 4, 2024.

• “My Only Sin Is My Skin: Confronting Racism in Active Living”. Exercise and Nutrition Sciences Departmental Seminar Series. Milken Institute School of Public Health. The George Washington University, Washington, DC, March 22, 2024.

• “Since When Have Trees Existed Only For White Folks?: Understanding the Racism that Creates Nature Inequity”. Healing Communities by Removing Highways. East Side Parkways Coalition, Frank E. Merriweather, Jr. Branch Library, Buffalo, NY, February 22, 2024.

• “We Are Each Other’s Harvest.  We Are Each Magnitude and Bond.”: Understanding the Racialization of Nature”. NatureRx Initiatives. University of Connecticut, October 2-3, 2023.

• “From Environmental Racism to Environmental Reparation: The Story of One American City”. School of Social Work. University of New York at Buffalo, September 18, 2023.

• “What’s She Made Of”. Invited Key Note Speaker. WNY Women’s Foundation, Buffalo, NY, May 22, 2023.

• “Buffalo’s Emerald Necklace: An Active Living Injustice”. Department of Kinesiology and Community Health. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 14, 2023.

• Conference Co-Chair Opening Remarks. “My Only Sin Is My Skin” Video, Created and Edited by Dr. Jennifer D. Roberts. Active Living Conference, National Institutes of Health, Natcher Center Auditorium, Bethesda, MD, March 14, 2023.

• “Race, History, and Rock Creek - Nature as Healing”, Rock Creek Conservancy, Washington, DC, February 28, 2023.

• “I Can’t Breathe: Environmental Racism in the United States”. Center for the Elimination of Minority Health Disparities. University of New York at Albany, February 24, 2023.

• “Active Living Environments: Patterned by Race and Place”. School of Social Work. University of New York at Buffalo, February 13, 2023.

• “Nature Draws No Color Line: Until Man’s Racism Is Unleashed”. Grand Challenges of Our Time – A Course By Dr. Darryll Pines, University of Maryland President. University of Maryland, College Park, MD, October 17, 2022.

• “Parks, Buses, Pools and More: Healthy and Safe Outdoor Spaces in the Age of COVID-19”. Safer Spaces Program, Health Design Lab at Thomas Jefferson University and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Washington, DC, May 6, 2022.

• “Moving In Color: Confronting Racism in America’s Transportation”.  The John Ruffin Lecture. NIH/National Institute on Aging, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Health Disparities Research Section, Bethesda, MD, March 11, 2022.

• “Black Bodies in Green and Blue Spaces: A Look at Racism, Nature, and Health”. Research Seminar, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, February 28, 2022.

• “Structural Racism and Health: The Root of Health Disparities”. Invited Speaker to Black History Month Celebration, Social Justice Advisory Committee, Office of the Montgomery County Council , Rockville, MD, February 16, 2022.

• “Dirt On Our Hands: Recognizing Nature as a Healer of Wounds and Promoter of Health”. Center for Health and Nature Symposium. Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station, TX, December 8, 2021.

• “Green Books and Red Lines: Transit Patterned by Race and Place”. Seminar Series, Environmental Health Sciences Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, November 17, 2021.

• “I am Black and the Trees are Green: Bestowing Mother Nature to Everyone”. Invited Panelist to “Parks and Public Spaces – Working to Achieve Health Equity”, American Public Health Association 2021 Annual Meeting. Denver, CO, October 26, 2021.

• “Green Books, Red Lines. Black Bodies: A Look at America’s Transit Inequity”.  Conference on Advancing Transportation Equity.  Transportation Research Board, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, Washington, DC,  September 14, 2021.

• “The Health of the Country Depends Upon the Health of the Negroes: Nature of Pandemics and Protests in the 20th and 21st Centuries”. Spring 2021 Nature and Health Symposium. Nature and Health at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, April 28, 2021.

• “Environmental Racism: An Old Wine in a New Bottle”.  Spring 2021 Seminar Series.  Columbia Center for Environmental Health in Northern Manhattan,  Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY,  April 15, 2021.

• “Moving Targets: Racialized and Socialized Barriers to Active Transportation”.  Accelerating Active Transportation Change in Northern Virginia. George Mason University. Fairfax, VA.,  March 25, 2021.

• “There is No Green Book for Walking: Transit Risks Patterned by Race and Place”. University of California Institute of Transportation Studies Seminar Series. University of California, Davis, CA, November 6, 2020.

• “Do Better. Act Better. Live Better”. Invited “Harriet and Willcox Adsit Lecturer”. Buffalo Seminary Convocation, Buffalo, NY, September 16, 2020.

• “Public Health Outcomes and Effects of the Built Environment: A Look at PHOEBE Laboratory Research”. University of Michigan Precision Health Seminar Series. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, February 11, 2020.