Below is a list of trainings, webinars, and other educational events that I’ve attended. Please note that trainings may appear under multiple headers.
Trainings and Webinars
Certificates
Certificate – Gaming Accessibility Fundamentals
Microsoft
November 2023
Certificate – Patient Leadership
Health Union
August 2023
Certificate – Human Rights Education Training
US Institute of Diplomacy and Human Rights
August 2023
Certificate – Patient Advocacy & Storytelling
National Patient Advocate Foundation
July 2023
Certificate – Translational Science Specialization
University of Michigan & Coursera
July 2023
Certificate – Foundations of Health Equity Research
Johns Hopkins University & Coursera
July 2023
Certificate – Wilderness First Aid Specialization
University of Colorado System & Coursera
July 2023
Certificate – Medical Terminology Specialization
Rice University & Coursera
July 2023
Certificate – Leading Diverse Teams
University of California, Irvine & Coursera
May 2023
Certificate – Leading Diverse Teams & Organizations
University of Michigan & Coursera
March 2023
COVID-19
- Ableism and Our Movements: Learning From COVID
- Achieving Understanding and Acceptance of COVID-19 Vaccination: How to Recent Survey Research and Findings Help Inform Communication Strategies and Messaging?
- Addressing Health Equity and Social Justice Issues During a Pandemic: What is the Role of the Health Communication, Marketing, and Media Professional?
- Avoiding COVID-19 Burnout: Self-Care and Resiliency for Public Health Leaders
- Boundaries in the Age of Covid-19
- Combating Racism Against Asian Communities During Covid-19
- COVID-19: Disproportionate Impact on Navajo and Tribal Communities
- COVID-19 and Domestic Violence
- COVID19 and Health Equity: Exploring Disparities and Long Term Health Impacts
- COVID-19 and what about other LGBTIQ issues?
- Covid-19, Decarceration, and Abolition
- COVID-19 Health Disparities, Respiratory Illness, and Communities of Color
- Criminalization Lessons from HIV to COVID-19
- Crisis Leadership and Resiliency: A Trauma-Informed Approach to COVID-19 Response
- Disability Justice and COVID-19
- Disability Organizing in the Age of COVID: Medical Rationing, Eugenics, and the Precarity of Mutual Aid
- Disabled: Not a Burden, Not Disposable
- Ensuring Health Equity for Persons with Disabilities: The Context and Ethics of Health Rationing Protocols during COVID-19
- How Misinformation and the Coronavirus Begins, Spreads, and Can Be Effectively Addressed
- How Politics and Social Media Compromise Risk Communication and Risk Management in a Pandemic
- How to Use Data to Promote Health Equity During COVID-19
- Optimizing Virtual Patient Engagement During the COVID-19 Pandemic to Overcome Increased Barriers to Adherence
- Pandemic & Privilege: is everyone affected equally?
- Racism Under The Rainbow: Covid19: A Community Conversation
- Standing Against Racism in the Time of COVID
- Systemic Racism, Health Disparities, and COVID-19: Leading Through Complex Trauma with Resilience and Hope
- Toward the New Normal: Protecting Public Health as America Reopens
- Under the Blacklight: The Intersectional Vulnerabilities That COVID Lays Bare part 5
- What Can We Learn from Crisis? Leadership, Post-Traumatic Growth, and COVID-19
- White Anti-Racist Action In A Time of Covid-19
Marketing
- 7 Essentials For Branding Yourself Online
- Achieving Understanding and Acceptance of COVID-19 Vaccination: How to Recent Survey Research and Findings Help Inform Communication Strategies and Messaging?
- Addressing Health Equity and Social Justice Issues During a Pandemic: What is the Role of the Health Communication, Marketing, and Media Professional?
- Applying a Racial Justice Lens to Social Marketing
- Black Communication: Supporting Healthy Black Families
- Breaking Down Barriers Through Storytelling
- Building Communication Access: Language and Cultural Considerations
- Digital Ears: Setting Up a Social Listening Program for Your Organization/Campaign
- Digital Support Teams/Groups for Our Movement
- Digital Toolkits for Rapid Response Events & Activism
- Getting Started with Information Outreach in Your Community
- Graphic Design for Non-Designers: Free Tools and More!
- Growing, Organizing, and Utilizing Your Mailing List
- Health Equity Guiding Principles for Inclusive Communication
- Health Literacy and Clear Healthcare Communication
- How A Marketing Plan Leads to Successful Evaluation
- How Politics and Social Media Compromise Risk Communication and Risk Management in a Pandemic
- Implementing Successful Digital Media Buys
- Instagram: Do You Need It and What Should You Do With It?
- Intelligent Content Strategies for the Modern Marketer
- Language Matters: How to Talk about Native Nations
- Making Sure Your Facebook Content is Seen
- Messaging to Increase Enrollment Among Priority Populations
- Multi-Lingual Organizing in the Digital Space
- Providing Cultural Competency and Effective Communication for the Hmong Population
- Public Policy and Pop Culture: Getting Wonky on Social Media Without Being Boring
- Reaching Hispanic and Black or African American Audiences: What Works and What We’ve Learned
- Seen and Heard? Elevate Your Brand Above the Din of Digital Saturation
- Social Media Marketing
- Tips, Lessons Learned, and Evaluation of Social and Digital Media Strategies
- Using Data and Insights for Effective Communication
Equity & Justice
- Addressing Digital Health Equity for Rural & Underserved Populations
- Addressing Health Equity in the Digital Age
- Addressing Healthcare Challenges in Diversity and Inclusion
- Addressing Implicit Bias in Organizational Structures
- Addressing Inequities in Health Data Use
- Advancing Health Equity in Rare Disease
- Allyship in the Workplace
- Bystander Intervention to Stop Anti-Asian/American Harassment and Xenophobia
- Bystander Intervention 2.0: Conflict De-escalation
- Bystander Intervention to Address Gender-based Street Violence
- Can I Sit at This Table?: Including Fat Liberation in Your Activism
- COVID19 and Health Equity: Exploring Disparities and Long Term Health Impacts
- COVID-19 and what about other LGBTIQ issues?
- Creating Healthy Environments with Language Justice
- Culturally Competent Care for Transgender Patients
- Dismantling Settler Colonialism and Ableism: Disability Justice
- Driving Health Equity Through Diversity in Health Leadership
- Equality in the Workplace
- Equitable Preparedness for Vulnerable Populations
- Fabulous and Thriving: Wellness in the Land of Fatphobia
- From Beyond Our Borders: Providing Multilingual and Multicultural Health Information
- Health Equity and Environmental Justice 101
- Health Equity Guiding Principles for Inclusive Communication
- Health Equity Toolkit
- Implicit Bias: Using Brain Science to Understand, Recognize, and Control It
- Intersectionality for Human Service Professionals
- Land Acknowledgement 101
- Language Matters: How to Talk about Native Nations
- Leading Diverse Teams and Organizations (Coursera Certificate)
- One-Sided Conflict Resolution De-escalating and Finding Common Ground
- Operationalizing an Organizational Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Pandemic & Privilege: is everyone affected equally?
- Parks, Equity, and Public Health
- Place Matters
- Prioritizing Community Health to Achieve Health Equity
- Resources to Advance Health Equity Within Your Organization
- Rethinking White Supremacy in Precarious Times
- Segregation Stress Syndrome: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin
- Social Determinants of Health: From Barriers to Opportunities
- Solidarity is a Practice: Anti-Racist Work for MMIND (Mad, Mentally Ill, Neurodivergent, Disabled) Folks
- Spacial Justice: A Driver of Health in the Context of Societal Emergencies
- The Emotional Toll of Anti-Immigrant and Anti-Latino Rhetoric
- The Fight for Racial and Economic Justice: A Virtual Discussion with Darrick Hamilton, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Symone Baptiste, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, and Bianca Cunningham
- The Need for Critical Thinking in Crisis Situations is NOW
- The Racial Wealth Gap: Historical Roots and Systemic Barriers
- Unconscious Bias at Work: Creating a Culture Where Everyone Belongs
- The White Male Doctor Will See You Now: Utilizing Digital Health to Increase Access to Diverse Providers
- Trans Visibility Is A Repro Health & Justice Issue: Not a Cissue
- Trauma-Informed Care, ACEs, and the Life Course
Racial & Ethnic Justice
- A Juneteenth Discussion on Hockey, Race, and Community
- Advancing Racial and Social Justice
- Anti-Black Roots of Mental Health Systems
- Anti-Racism in Public Health Policies, Practice, and Research
- Applying a Racial Justice Lens to Social Marketing
- Assessing Organizational Racism and Advocating for Anti-Racist Work Spaces
- Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
- Black Communication: Supporting Health Black Families
- Building and Measuring Community Power for Health Justice
- Building Communication Access: Language and Cultural Considerations
- Building Equity into Your Network of Partners
- Combating Racism Against Asian Communities During Covid-19
- Community-Centered Health Justice and Racial Equity: Organic Efforts Towards Health Equity-Driven Policy and Practice
- COVID-19: Disproportionate Impact on Navajo and Tribal Communities
- COVID-19 Health Disparities, Respiratory Illness, and Communities of Color
- Emotional Reparations as Racial Justice Work: What's Mindfulness and Compassion Got to Do With It?
- Ethics Grand Rounds Series on Race and Biomedicine
- Racism is a Public Health Crisis
- Racism Under The Rainbow: Covid19: A Community Conversation
- Reaching Hispanic and Black or African American Audiences: What Works and What We’ve Learned
- Redlining and Chronic Disease: The Legacy of Racism on the Built Environment and on Health
- Solidarity is a Practice: Anti-Racist Work for MMIND (Mad, Mentally Ill, Neurodivergent, Disabled) Folks
- Standing Against Racism in the Time of COVID
- Sustained Engagement for Racial Justice: Sharing Ideas and Resources for Ongoing "Inquiry and Action for Social Change"
- Systems of Racial Violence
- Systemic Racism, Health Disparities, and COVID-19: Leading Through Complex Trauma with Resilience and Hope
- The Color of Law
- The Emotional Toll of Anti-Immigrant and Anti-Latino Rhetoric
- The Fight for Racial and Economic Justice: A Virtual Discussion with Darrick Hamilton, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Symone Baptiste, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, and Bianca Cunningham
- The Racial Wealth Gap: Historical Roots and Systemic Barriers
- Transforming Public Health Through Leadership, Justice, and Racial Healing
- Under the Blacklight: The Intersectional Vulnerabilities That COVID Lays Bare part 5
- What is Black Disability Studies (& why should it matter in public health)?
- White Anti-Racist Action In A Time of Covid-19
- Working Across Government to Advance Health and Racial Equity
Disability & Chronic Illness
- Ableism and Our Movements: Learning From COVID
- Ableism and Public Health
- Access Intimacy: From Theory to Action
- Accessibility Online Basics
- Accessible Parking, What Does That Mean?
- Accessing Disabled Pleasure
- Americans with Disabilities Act Compliance
- Anti-Black Roots of Mental Health Systems
- Beyond Alternatives: Disability, Madness and Prison Abolition
- Building Access-Centered Cultures
- Building Communication Access: Language and Cultural Considerations
- But I Should Be Able To: Healing Internalized Ableism
- Conquering the Brain in Pain: How Pain Affects Your Brain, And What To Do About It
- Criminalization Lessons from HIV to COVID-19
- Disability Justice and COVID-19
- Disability Organizing in the Age of COVID: Medical Rationing, Eugenics, and the Precarity of Mutual Aid
- Disability Rights and Reproductive Justice
- Disabled: Not a Burden, Not Disposable
- Dismantling Settler Colonialism and Ableism: Disability Justice
- Enabling Ability: Playing with Disabled Partners
- Ensuring Health Equity for Persons with Disabilities: The Context and Ethics of Health Rationing Protocols During COVID-19
- Expression and Movement: A Dance Class for Chronic Pain
- Finding the Right Fit in Assistive Technology
- Indisposable: Structures of Support after the Americans with Disabilities Act
- Moving at the Speed of Trust: Disability Justice and Transformative Justice
- Solidarity is a Practice: Anti-Racist Work for MMIND (Mad, Mentally Ill, Neurodivergent, Disabled) Folks
- The State of Disability and Pleasure
- What is Black Disability Studies (& why should it matter in public health)?
Emotional and Mental Health
- Fabulous and Thriving: Wellness in the Land of Fatphobia
- Trauma-Informed Care, ACEs, and the Life Course
- Understanding Attachment
Public Health
- A Prevention Approach to Working with the Social Determinants of Health
- Avoiding COVID-19 Burnout: Self-Care and Resiliency for Public Health Leaders
- Building Collaborative Webinar: Community Health Improvement Matrix
- Centering Equity in Our Public Health Tools and Frameworks
- Chronic Disease and Health Equity
- COVID-19 Health Disparities, Respiratory Illness, and Communities of Color
- Criminalization Lessons from HIV to COVID-19
- From Roots to Results: A Qualitative Study of the Evolution of a Public Health Leadership Institute Building Capacity in Collaborating for Equity and Justice
- From Problem to Prevention: Evidence-Based Public Health
- Health and Racial Inequity: a pre-existing condition
- Health Equity and Environmental Justice 101
- Health Literacy and Clear Healthcare Communication
- Health Literacy for Public Health Professionals
- Health Outreach and Programming in Your Community
- How A Marketing Plan Leads to Successful Evaluation
- How Digitial Paper Can enhance the Patient Experience
- How to Use Data to Promote Health Equity During COVID-19
- Institutionalizing Equity: Public Health Leaders Advance Organizational Change
- Leadership & Policy: Actions to Address Racism as a Public Health Issue
- Making Sense of Numbers: Understanding Risks and Benefits, Communicating Numerical Health Information
- Mental Health First Aid: A Primer for Public Health Professionals and Communities
- Prioritizing Community Health to Achieve Health Equity
- Racism is a Public Health Crisis
- Returning to the Community: A Quality Improvement Project
- Social Determinants of Health: From Barriers to Opportunities
- Transforming Public Health Through Leadership, Justice, and Racial Healing
- Trauma-Informed Care, ACEs, and the Life Course
- Understanding Health Literacy
- Using a Co-Design Process to Advance Health Equity in Wisconsin: Building the Neighborhood Health Partnerships Program
- Using the Community Toolbox to Support Health Education and Health Promotion Efforts
- We need to talk about... Health literacy
- What is Black Disability Studies (& why should it matter in public health)?
- When Your Help is Perceived as Harm: Making Sense of Public Reactions to Public Health Action
- Working Across Government to Advance Health and Racial Equity
Medical & Healthcare
- Access and Affordability Is Now A Cross-Functional Priority
- Advancing Medical's Value Proposition for HCPs with Digital Innovation
- Anti-Black Roots of Mental Health Systems
- Building a Culture of Quality and Performance Improvement
- Building Systems of Value-Based Care
- Capturing the Whole Patient: Using Granular Racial/Ethnic, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity Data
- Compassion: A Powerful Connector of Patient and Caregiver Experience
- Criminalization Lessons from HIV to COVID-19
- Disrupting the Healthcare Model: The Shift to Patient Control of Drug Access and Treatment
- Effective Ambulatory Quality Initiative
- Elevating Diversity and Inclusion to Strengthen Your Employee Engagement and PX Strategy
- Engage and Empower Me: Patient Engagement Design
- Engaging the Patient, Family, and Community to Improve Care for Transgender Pediatric Patients
- Exploring Varying Modes of Digital Health
- How Patient Groups Can be the Bridge to Precompetitive Collaboration with Real World Evidence
- How Virtual Care is Expanding Access to Vulnerable Communities
- Improving Patient and Family Experience in the NICU: A Practical Application of the Experience Framework
- Measuring, Reporting, and Winning on ROI: Understanding the Financial Side of Patient Experience
- Narrative Kindness in Healthcare: Results from Gatherings of Kindness in Australia & USA
- Optimizing Virtual Patient Engagement During the COVID-19 Pandemic to Overcome Increased Barriers to Adherence
- Partnering with Patients in Health Care
- Patient Centricity: The Power of Co-Creation
- Patient Empowerment in Clinical Trials: Moving from Research Subject to Stakeholder
- Patient Group Partnerships are the Foundation of Effective Disease Awareness Strategy
- Real-world and Longitudinal Analytics to Uncover Precise Patient and HCP Insights
- Systems Thinking is Your Key to Improving Quality Outcomes for Providers and Patients
- The Role of Relationships in Patient Engagement
- Using the Patient-Centered Value System to Connect Feedback with Action
- What Would a Patient Advocate Do?
Rheumatology
- Addressing Mental Health in Pediatric Rheumatology
- Addressing Racial Disparities in Rheumatology
- Curbside Consults: CFS, POTS, MCAS
- Cytokines and Cell Trafficking
- Diversity & Inclusion: Examine the Effects of Unconscious Bias
- Empathy in Rheumatology
- Enhance Care for LGBTQ+ Patients
- Epidemiology & Public Health I: Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Epidemiology & Public Health II: Risk Factors & Outcomes
- Epidemiology & Public Health III: Risk Factors & Outcomes
- Fibromyalgia & Clinical Pain Syndromes
- Helping Patients Navigate Online Support & Social Media
- Immunology Bootcamp I: Basic Principles
- Immunology Bootcamp II: Principles in Practice
- Innate Immunity
- Interleukin-1 Family Cytokines in Rheumatology
- Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Guidelines
- Medical Advancements in Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Neurologic Manifestations of Autoinflammatory Disorders
- Patient Outcomes, Preferences, & Attitudes 2: Engagement, Perceptions, & Quality of Life
- Pediatric Rheumatology – Clinical I: Treatment of JIA
- Reproductive Issues in Rheumatic Disorders
- Self-Management Techniques with Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Stats Bootcamp 3: Statistical Modeling for Correlated Data
- Still's Disease: Research and Clinical Trials
- What Every Rheumatologist Should Know about COPA Syndrome: A New Genetic Mimic of Rheumatic Disease
LGBTQ+
- Beyond the Binary: Health Resources for Sexual and Gender Minorities
- Beyond the G: Intersectionality Panel
- Body Sovereignty and Biomedical Systems: Trans Experiences Accessing Abortion & Contraceptive Care
- Capturing the Whole Patient: Using Granular Racial/Ethnic, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity Data
- Culturally Competent Care for Transgender Patients
- Decolonizing Gender Studies
- Engaging the Patient, Family, and Community to Improve Care for Transgender Pediatric Patients
- Principles of Voice Production and Gender Perception
- Reclaiming Pride
- Reducing Inequalities Between LGBTQ Adolescents and Cisgender, Heterosexual Adolescents
- Singing Voice Across the Gender Spectrum
- Testosterone Treatment and the Voice
- The State of Trans Studies in the 2020s
- Toolbox for Voice Masculinization
- Trans Advocacy & the Reproductive Justice Issue in Wisconsin
- Trans Bodies and Cultures
- Trans Visibility Is A Repro Health & Justice Issue: Not a Cissue
- Transforming Abortion Stigma: Together We Can Make Shift Happen
- Voice and Gender Identity: Perspectives from Lived Experience
- Voice Surgery for Vocal Gender Affirmation
- Yes, All Genders: How to Normalize and Include Trans Bodies and Pleasure in Adult Sex Ed
Abolition
- Abolish Policing, Not Just the Police
- Abolition Can't Wait: A Teach-In with #8toAbolition
- Beyond Alternatives: Disability, Madness and Prison Abolition
- Covid-19, Decarceration, and Abolition
Sexual Education & Kink
- Accessing Disabled Pleasure
- BDSM and the Difficult Body: Working Around Disabilities
- Boundaries in the Age of Covid-19
- Covers, Cuffs, and Squirrels: BDSM, ADHD, and You
- Disability Rights and Reproductive Justice
- Enabling Ability: Playing with Disabled Partners
- Feel it in your bone(r)s: Embodying Greater Sensuality While Challenging White Supremacy
- Feeling Safe and Sexy: A Trauma-Informed Approach to Being Sex Positive
- Get Your Head in the Game: Having Great Sex with a Noisy Brain
- Jumpstart Your Career In Sexuality
- Needs & Language Barriers in Power Exchange
- NeuroConvergent
- Overcoming Mental Illness in a Master/slave Dynamic
- Say Yes to Pleasure: Exploring the Benefits of Pleasure Education
- Sex Educator Sessions: Practicing Disability Inclusiveness with Ducky Doolittle and Robin Mandell
- Sex for Survivors: Embodied Sexuality for Survivors of Sexual Violence with Sophia Chase
- Sir! Yes Sir!: Exploring Protocol in Power Exchange Dynamics
- Spicy Brain Intimacy
- The State of Disability and Pleasure
- Trauma-Informed Negotiation and Consent
- What Kink Can Do For Mental Health
- When Sex Hurts... And You Don't Want It To!
- Yes, All Genders: How to Normalize and Include Trans Bodies and Pleasure in Adult Sex Ed
Leadership
- Adaptive Campaigning Tech Tools Tips & Best Practices
- Building Resilient Communities Online and In-Person
- Coaching and Developing Others
- Crisis Leadership and Resiliency: A Trauma-Informed Approach to COVID-19 Response
- Fired Up & Burnt Out: Keeping it Together in Uncertain Times
- Leadership Awareness
- Managing Interpersonal Conflicts and Tensions
- Multi-Lingual Organizing in the Digital Space
- Presentation Skills for Leaders
- Professional Development Planning for Leaders
- Team Facilitation
- Team Management
- Understanding Mission, Vision, and Strategy
- Understanding Planned Organization Change
- What Can We Learn from Crisis? Leadership, Post-Traumatic Growth, and COVID-19
Conferences Attended
Note: Those with an asterisk were conferences I presented at. Those with a plus sign were attended virtually.
2024
- Health Equity in Clinical Trials Congress*
2023
- axe-con+
- Rare Disease Week 2023 by X-Talks and ICON*+
- TransTech Summit*+
- OMERACT*
2022
- axe-con+
2021
- Safe Healthy Strong Milwaukee*+
- NACDD: 5th Annual Program Showcase+
- The UW System Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium+
- Wisconsin LGBTQ+ Health Summit+
- ASTHO Healthy Equity Virtual Summit+
- National Hispanic Medical Association’s 24th Annual Conference+
- WPHA-WALHDAB 2021 Public Health Conference – Advocating for Wisconsin’s Health: Striving for Justice Through Systems Change+
- National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing and Media+
- TPATH Conference: Converging Crises: Transgender Health and Activism in 2021+
- ODPHP & Trust for America’s Health: 2021 Healthy Aging Symposium+
- Dismantling Eugenics: Legacies, Reckonings, and Futures Convening+
- AARDA: Inaugural Autoimmune Summit+
- Toward One Wisconsin: A Conference on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion+
- 24th National Patient & Caregiver Conference for The Mast Cell Disease Society+
- eHealth Initiative’s Digital Health Equity Summit: Addressing Inequities and Building A Modern Healthcare System+
2020
- Wisconsin ILC Legislative Days*
- The Beryl Institute’s Patient Experience Conference+
- Organizing 2.0+
- Collaborative Journalism Summit+
- Sex Down South+
- American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting+
- Toward One Wisconsin: A Conference on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion+
2019
- The Beryl Institute’s Patient Experience Conference
- True Crime Podcast Festival
2018
- Playground Conference*
- Safe Healthy Strong Milwaukee*
- ClexaCon*
- Wisqueer*
- ACSEXE+ Summit*
- Real Talk Summit+
2017
- Explore More Summit+
- HealtheVoices*
- University of Guelph Sexuality Conference*
- The Woodhull Foundation’s Sexual Freedom Summit*
- Real Talk Summit
- American College of Rheumatology Annual Meeting
2016
- ePharma Summit
- HealtheVoices
- Self-Care Movement*
- Arthritis Foundation’s Juvenile Arthritis Conference-Phoenix*
- Arthritis Foundation’s Juvenile Arthritis Conference-Philly*
- Stanford University’s MedicineX*
- 9th Annual Women In Pain Conference*
- Joint Decisions Summit
2015
- Arthritis Introspective Gathering
- Arthritis Foundation’s Juvenile Arthritis Conference
- Stanford University’s MedicineX
2014
- Arthritis Advocacy Summit
- Badger Watch Safety Conference
- Stanford University’s MedicineX+
2012
- World Autoimmune & Autoinflammatory Arthritis Day+