Talks and Workshops

Audiences: Humans 5 years old and up

Subject matter: Climate Action, Plastic Pollution Reduction, Horseshoe Crab Conservation, Sustainable Fashion, Earth Day Everyday

Venues:

  • Schools

  • Libraries

  • Colleges and Universities

  • Art & Design Events and Industry Orgs

  • Environmental Agencies

Sustainability Speaker

  • 2025, Annual American Studies Conference: American Politics, Culture, and the Arts, Artist and Scholar Roundtable, Fairfield University

  • 2025, Art, Advocacy & Activism, North Stratfield School, Fairfield, CT

  • 2025, Earth Day Alert!, New York Public Library, Tompkins Square

  • 2025, Art, Activism, Apparel & Illustration, School of Visual Arts (SVA), NYC

  • 2025, The Sound of Plastic, Mill Hill Elementary Green Team, Fairfield, CT

  • 2024, Environment Justice through Art + Education, School of Visual Arts (SVA), NYC

  • 2024, The Sound of Plastic, Wakeman Boys and Girls Club, Bridgeport, CT

  • 2024, Ozone Baby, Type Thursday, La Cultural Community Gardens, NYC

  • 2024, Interview, Earthworks Collective podcast, Brooklyn

  • 2024, Interview, As We Create podcast, Connecticut Art Directors Club

  • 2024, Character Development: Illustration + Activism, School of Visual Arts (SVA), NYC

  • 2024, Realism meets Optimism, Yale Office of Sustainability, Yale School of the Environment

  • 2024, Intro to The Carbon Almanac, Women And Climate, NYC

  • 2023, Interview, Climate Gist podcast, Mexico City

  • 2023, Women And Climate, Speaker

  • 2023, Creativity and Climate Action, MoCA CT

  • 2018, Closing Keynote, A Better World x Design, RISD/Brown University

ONGOING EDUCATION

  • 2025, NYC Trash Academy, Sanitation Foundation

  • 2025, Sustainable Tourism, University of Copenhagen

  • 2025, AI, Empathy & Ethics, University of California, Santa Cruz

  • 2025, Global Environmental Management, Technical University of Denmark

  • 2025, Artificial Intelligence: Ethics & Societal Challenges, Lund University

  • 2024, Beyond Plastic Pollution w/Judith Enck, Bennington College

  • 2024, AI, Business & the Future of Work, Lund University

  • 2024, Building Compassion from the Inside Out, Compassionate Institute

  • 2024, Generative AI for Leaders, Vanderbilt University

  • 2024, Google AI Essentials, Google

  • 2023, Circular Economy Sustainable Materials Management, Lund University

  • 2023, ESG and Climate Change, Wharton, UPENN

  • 2023, The Sustainable Development Goals, University of Copenhagen

  • 2023, Design for Sustainability, SCAD / PMI Institute

  • 2023, Agile Leadership and Resilient Teams, Noble Work Foundation

  • 2021, Compassionate Directness, LinkedIn Learning

  • 2021, Coaching Skills for Leaders and Managers, LinkedIn Learning

  • 2021, Digital Leadership, LinkedIn Learning

  • 2021, Servant Leadership, LinkedIn Learning

  • 2021, Collaborative Leadership, LinkedIn Learning

  • 2021, Leading and Managing with the Whole Self, LinkedIn Learning

  • 2021, Self-Awareness, Authenticity and Leadership, LinkedIn Learning

  • 2021, The Science of Happiness, University of California, Berkeley

  • 2021, The Science of Well-Being for Educators, Yale University (Invitation-only)

  • 2021, The Science of Well-Being, Yale University

  • 2020, Inner Engineering, Isha Foundation

  • 2020, Brand Safety Officer, Brand Safety Institute

  • 2019, Innovation and Creativity, Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning

  • 2019, Strategic Thinking, Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning

  • 2019, Coaching, Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning

  • 2019, Hiring, Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning

  • 2019, Leading People, Harvard Business Publishing Corporate Learning

  • 2011–2012, Sustainable Design Entrepreneur Program, FIT

ADDITIONAL TRAINING

MEMBER / SUPPORTER / CONTRIBUTOR

SUMMITS / WORKSHOPS / CONFERENCES

GRANTS

  • Connecticut Artists Respond Grant, Environmental Justice
    Made possible with the support of the Department of Economic and Community Development, Office of the Arts, which also receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

MODERATOR / CONTRIBUTOR

  • SHIFT Summit: AIGA Design Educators Community in partnership with AIGA Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Task Force

FOUNDING MEMBER

  • Manufacture New York, NYC (2012)
    Promoting ethical work practices and sustainable fashion

JOURNALIST / WRITER

  • Save the Sound, New Haven, CT

  • HackSummit New York — Climate x Deep Tech

  • Soundly Caring — A Long Island Sound love story

  • Fashinnovation Worldwide Talks, New York

  • RefashionNYC

  • Freestyle Fashion Conference, LIM College, NYC

  • Manufacture New York Sustainable Textile Summit

  • City Source at FIT Manufacturer’s Showcase

  • 3D Print Show

  • Swissnex Boston, Zero Power Smart Fashion symposium, NYC

  • FashTech NYC Mini-conference, World Trade Center, NYC

  • City Source at FIT Manufacturer’s Showcase

  • Decoded Fashion Summit, NYC

  • Billie Whitehouse, Wearable Experiments, NYC

  • Reinventing New York Fashion + Market Week, NYC

MAKER / DESIGNER

  • 2010–present, MegaGlam® Vintage, Landfill Luxuries™ and the Plastic Horse Rescue™

  • 2010–present, The Weather sKwirl™ — the world’s only pink weather-loving climate superhero

  • 2011/12, A Better World by Design Expo Showcase, Brown University, Providence

  • 2012, “We Want Your Trash,” A Better World by Design RISD/Brown University Gala, The Steelyard (1 of 5 artists chosen from 100+ entries for an exhibition of art produced from discarded materials.)

  • 2010, Project Storefronts, Elm City Handmade, New Haven

  • 2010, Design Ignites Change, an invitational sustainable design project with Mohawk

  • 2008, BookDrive™ — a program repurposing design trade books to college students and emerging designers