Teaching

Boston University, Spring 2023
Culinary Tourism – Food Studies Master’s Program
A master’s-level course applying a tourism and Caribbean studies lens to food media on travel and eating, including a week-long tour of Puerto Rico featuring farm and distillery visits

My lectures were consolidated for publication in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Food Studies

Presenting

Water Street Projects “Yes, Chef” Exhibition, October 2024, New York, New York: “Eat or Be Eaten” Curated Reading and Conversation with Artist Camille Henrot

University of California–Berkeley Plant Futures Challenge Lab, September 2024, Berkeley, California (virtual): Guest lecture on the intersection of plant-based eating and food justice

Bates College Martin Luther King Jr. Day Observance, January 2024, Lewiston, Maine (virtual): “Defining and Refining a Food Justice Lens: To Create Food Media with a Fuller Analysis of Power”

Terroir Symposium, October 2023, Calgary, Alberta: “When Does the Grandma Rule Not Apply? Culinary Tourism As a Meatless Eater”

Boston University Food Studies Pepín Lecture Series, September 2023, Boston, Massachusetts: “Writing No Meat Required: The Cultural History and Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating”

MIT Seminar for Knight Journalism Fellows, September 2023, Cambridge, Massachusetts: “Lifestyle Cred: How I Learned to Gently Push a Plant-Based Diet”

Stealing Recipes? A Symposium, April 2023, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana: “Recipe Writing As Personal Narrative”

Unpacking Meat: Values, Cultures, Futures Symposium, April 2022, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts (virtual): Presenter and Panelist

Hamilton College, October 2021, Clinton, New York (virtual): “Against Techno-Optimism: Why the Future of Food Will Be Eco-feminist”

Die Geimenschaft Symposium, October 2020, Germany (virtual): “The Potential of Catastrophe: How New Narratives in Media and Kitchens Can Transform the Food System”