Continuing Education

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.

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+