Events

Speaking

Upcoming Dates

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PAST EVENTS

Info list and recap

  • Portland Lit Crawl, Nov 8th, 2019
  • YALSA YA Services Symposium, Nov 1st, 2019
  • Arizona State University: PHX Arizona, Oct 18th, 2019
  • Bronx Library Center: with Saracia Fennell and Vanessa Martir, Bronx, NY, Sept 30th, 2019
  • Porter Square Books: with Roxanne Gay, Boston, MA, Sept 28th, 2019
  • Free Library of PHL: with Laurie Halse Anderson, Philladelphia PA, Sept 27th, 2019
  • Politics & Prose at The Warf: with Elizabeth Acevedo , Washington DC, Sept 26th, 2019
  • LeftBank Books: St Louis, Missouri, Sept 25th, 2019
  • Women & Children First: with Erica L. Sanchez, Chicago, IL, Sept 24th, 2019
  • Next Chapter Bookseller: with Junauda Petras, Minneapolis, MN, Sept 23rd, 2019
  • Barnes & Noble: Emeryville, CA, Sept 21st, 2019
  • Albany High School: Albany, CA, Sept 20th, 2019
  • Cellar Door Bookstore: with Yesika Salgado, Riverside, CA, Sept 19th, 2019
  • Powells Books: with Tehlor K. Mejia, Beaverton, OR, Sept 18th, 2019
  • Third Place Books: Seattle Washington, Sept 17th, 2019
  • Housing Works Bookstore Cafe & Bar:  with Tee Franklin, NY, NY, Sept 16th, 2019
  • Ooblong Books & Music:  Rhineback NY, NY with Mary H.K. Choi and Elizabeth Kenan, Sept 15th, 2019
  • Writers and Readers: Cleveland Public Library, Sept 7th, 2019
  • SLJ Teen Live – Family Matters, Aug 8th, 2019
  • CCA Comics Panel, SF California, July 12th, 2019
  • YALSA, Washington DC, June 23rd, 2019
  • Penguin Young Readers Cocktails & Conversation LIVE YA Cocktail Party, June 22nd, 2019
  • Inspiring Radical Creativity, Cannes France, June 16th, 2019
  • Antioch College, June 15th, 2019
  • Ohio State University, March 23rd, 2019
  • University of Utah, March 7th, 2019
  • SUNY Binhamton, March 1, 2019
  • UNC Wilmington, January 23, 2019
  • NCTE Más Fuerte Together: A Roundtable on the current state of Latinx Publishing & Readers, November 16, 2018
  • Arizona State Creative Writing Center, October 18-19, 2018
  • Springfield Community College, October 9-10, 2018
  • Vanderbilt University, September 24, 2018
  • University of Nevada, September 14-15, 2018
  • Q&A with Joyful Heart Foundation, August 23, 2018
  • American Society Association Executives, August 19, 2018
  • Interview with In the Thick, July 30, 2018
  • National Council for Community and Education Partnerships conference, July 17, 2018
  • Smithsonian, June 25, 2018
  • HuffPost Pride Panel, June 20, 2018
  • Keynote at Richmond High School, May 30, 2018
  • Stanford University, May 16, 2018
  • The Center for Community Outreach at University of Kansas, April 24, 2018
  • Interview at Stephen College Campus, April 21, 2018
  • Unbound Book Festival in Missouri, April 20, 2018
  • Inspiring Radical Creativity at Cal State Sacramento, April 19, 2018
  • Changemaker Central Storyteller’s Series at Arizona State University, April 2, 2018
  • America Adelante at Harvard, March 28 – 31, 2018
  • Inspiring Queer Latinx Joy at Salve Regina University, March 20, 2018
  • Inspiring Radical Creativity at Brown University, March 12, 2018
  • Housing Works Greetings, from Queer Mountain, February 28, 2018
  • Geek OUT at UC Riverside, February 17, 2018
  • University of Redlands, February 15, 2018
  • UC Santa Cruz Event, February 12, 2018
  • Poesia Peligrosa Riverside, February 9, 2018
  • Talk with an Art Class, January 15, 2018
  • Smithsonian Conversation Marathon, December 1, 2017
  • Forbidden Planet – Signing America, November 15, 2017
  • Latinx Heritage Month Keynote Address at Pomona College, November 7, 2017
  • Inspiring Radical Creativity at Texas State University Justice Speaker Series, October 18, 2017
  • Latinx Heritage Month Keynote Address at George Washington University, October 15, 2017
  • New York Comic Con, October 6th – 8th, 2017
  • Latinx Heritage Month Keynote at LaGuardia Community College, October 4, 2017
  • Latinx Heritage Month Keynote Address at University of Pennsylvania, September 29, 2017
  • Keynote at Quinnapec, September 19, 2017
  • Brooklyn Book Fest Gala (romance/shapeshifter panel), September 16 – 17, 2017
  • Global HR Conference, September 13, 2017
  • RuPaul Dragcon, September 9 – 10, 2017
  • Fantastic Comic Signing, August 26, 2017
  • California for Butch Voices, August 18 – 20, 2017
  • Comic Signing at Golden Apple, August 23, 2017
  • All Ages Pride Party
  • Nylon Pride Panel, June 21, 2017
  • National Museum of Women in the Arts’, June 14, 2017
  • FRESH TALK
  • Bookcon, June 4, 2017
  • Breaking Down Walls Fuerzafest panel, May 10, 2017
  • PEN America: World Voices Festival NYC, May 1st – May 7th, 2017
  • Hispanic Panic!, May 5, 2017
  • Literary Quest: Westbeth Edition, May 4, 2017
  • Facebook Panel Coming out NFP, April 18, 2017
  • SYFY Interview, March 17, 2017
  • Signing in Midtown Comics, March 1-2, 2017
  • PBS Interview, February 22, 2017
  • Book Club Event at the Strand, January 27, 2017
  • Brooklyn Museum October 2, 2016
  • SLICE Panel, September 11, 2016
  • Reading at Ali Forney, May 20, 2016
  • University of Connecticut Rainbow Center out for lunch, April 26, 2016
  • Rainbow Book Fair Reading, April 9, 2016
  • BAAD reading in the Bronx, March 24, 2016