Recent and Past Events and Announcements

American Council of Learned Societies

I am very happy to announce that I have been awarded the ACLS Postdoc for the 2022 - 2023 Academic Year. ACLS is one of the leading private institutions supporting scholars in the humanities and interpretive social sciences at the doctoral and postdoctoral levels.

Hellman Fellowship

I am very happy to announce that I have been awarded the Hellman Fellowship for the 2022 - 2023 Academic Year. This generous award will support not only my manuscript revisions, but also the first ever California Indian Studies and Scholars Association conference.

Institute of American Cultures

I am very happy to announce that I have been awarded the IAC Visiting Research Scholar Fellowship Program for the 2022 - 2023 Academic Year. As I revise my manuscript I will be working closely with the UCLA's American Indian Studies Center while on fellowship.

UC Riverside

In April 2022, I gave a virtual talk for UC Riverside's Native American Student Programs Spring Lecture Series. My talked focused on the question of Indian health and Tuberculosis among Native domestic workers in the 20th century San Francisco Bay Area. 

Organization of American Historians

In March 2022, I presented "'Out' of the Boarding School: Native Women’s Outing Labor and Sexual Surveillance" for the panel, Boarding School Histories are American Educational History. Our panel was endorsed by four different societies and associations. 

UC Berkeley Geography

In March 2022, I gave my first in-person lecture since lockdown for the Geography Colloquium. In this talk I examined tuberculosis cases in the Bay Area Outing Program and with StoryMaps and showed the difficulties Native women experienced in accessing health care. 

Center for Cultural Studies

In January 2022, I gave a talk on one of my newest chapters. This talk examined how bodily regulation unfolded on Native women domestic workers in the early 20th-century Bay Area and how sexual surveillance in the Bay Area Outing Program affected Native women.

Chico State

In Fall 2021, I participated in Chico State's Book in Common series featuring Tommy Orange's There There. I discussed the origins of the Bay Area Indian Community explored in the text and its connections to Native women domestic workers.

Mills College

In Fall 2021, Mills College hosted a virtual panel of co-editors and fellow contributors of “Indigenous Geographies of Resistance,” to discuss our chapter in 
Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement and Resistance. Drs. Natalee K. Bauer and Savannah Kilner moderated.

Amah Mutsun Speaker Series

 Fall 2021, I gave a virtual talk for the Amah Mutsun Speaker Series. I spoke on one of the newest chapters of my book manuscript, discussing  cases of outing women who became critically ill with Tuberculosis while living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. 

Remove the Bells

In August 2021, several organizations hosted the UC Critical Mission Studies Conference. The next day, the program culminated with the removal of the final mission bell in Santa Cruz. Several hundred people attended the ceremony. Click the image to learn more.​

Beyond Surveillance

In April 2021 I presented “Scales of Containment,” for the Beyond Surveillance symposium hosted by the Georgia Institute of Technology. This presentation strengthened my new chapter's argument on surveillance disguised as care under racial capitalism.​​

Center for Cultural Studies

In January 2021, my colleague Gina Dent and I joined Drs. Melanie Yazzie and Michelle Daigle for "Inaugurating Alternative Futures." We discussed methods of resurgence and freedom premised on abolitionist, decolonial, and feminist praxis.

The Deep Read at UCSC

In spring 2021 I participated in The Deep Read--a four week program on Tommy Orange's There There. In addition to weekly “Email Explorations” that connected my research to the text, my participation culminated in a Salon with Drs. Mayanthi Fernando and Renya Ramirez.

We Still Live Here Screening

As part of my Indigenous Feminisms course, on February 25, 2021  Feminist Studies hosted a talk with Dr. Nitana Greendeer, Head of School at the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project.  Attendees also watched We Still Live Here, Âs Nutayuneân, in advance.

Western History Association 2020​

In October 2020 I presented, “Imprisoned on Native Land: Japanese Internment and Native Women’s Labor at Manzanar,” for the panel I organized, Concentration Camps, Natives, Nazis and Performance: Rethinking State Violence and Interethnic Relations in the West During World War II.

Work in Progress Talk

In November 2020, I presented "Unhealthy Regulations: Native Women's Health, Sexual Surveillance & Bodily Control." For this talk I brought two new chapters of my book manuscript in conversation to reveal both a hyper-regulation of Native women’s bodies and outright neglect.

Film Screening: Amá

On November 10, 2020 I was an invited discussant for UC Berkeley Library's screening of Amá. A documentary that uncovers the forced sterilization of Native American women during the 1960s and 1970s. I discussed data from my own archive that attests forced sterilization.

Berkeley Talks Podcast​

On November 7, 2020 a 2019 podcast I did for KALX's The Graduates was re-podcasted to Berkeley Talks. This episode won fourth place for "Best Regularly Scheduled Entertainment Program" in CBI’s National Awards. Listen to the full interview: “How Native women challenged a 1900s Bay Area assimilation program.”​​

Sq--w Valley Resort Name Change

​On July 13, 2020 Fox 40 Sacramento interviewed myself and Helen Fillmore, on the proposed name change of the Sq--w Valley Resort in California. I discussed the disparaging impact of the word and explained the history of sex and slave trafficking in the region. I'm happy to report the name change is official.

American Indian Graduation

In June 2020, I was the Keynote Speaker for the Indian Health Center of Santa Clara Valley's 2020 American Indian Graduation and Student Recognition celebration. It was a pleasure speaking to this new generation and reflecting on how our relatives built the Bay Area Indian community as we know it today.​