SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS, PROFESSIONAL WORKSHOPS AND SCHOOL VISITS

• Rhode Island Festival of Children's Books and Authors, Providence, RI, October 13th–14th, 2023
• Independent Bookstore Day at Brookline Booksmith, Brookline, MA, April 29th, 2023
• The University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, November 17th, 2022
• MFA program guest lecturer at the University of Hartford Art School, Hartford, CT, July 11th, 2022
• Career Presentation and Art Demo at Elite Art Portfolio, Beijing, China, August 3rd, 2021
• An Unlikely Story Bookstore, Faraway Things release event, Plainville, MA, June 21st, 2021
• University of Cambridge, Masters of Children's Book Program at the Cambridge School of Art, Cambridge, United Kingdom, January 27th, 2021
• Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT, November 23rd, 2020
• Career Presentation and Art Demo at Elite Art Portfolio, Beijing, China, July 15th and 29th, 2020
• MFA Graduate Program in Children's Literature at Hollins University, Roanoke, VA, June 22nd, 26th and 29th, 2020
• Children's Books: Writer/Illustrator Collaboration, What Cheer Writers Club, Providence, RI, March 28th, 2020
• Beyond Picture Books: Illustrating for Middle-Grade, What Cheer Writers Club, Providence, RI, November 16th, 2019
• The University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, September 24th, 2019
• SCBWI 20th Annual Winter Conference, New York City, NY, February 8th–10th, 2019
• Rhode Island Festival of Children's Books and Authors, Providence, RI, October 12th–13th, 2018
• Northeastern University, Boston, MA, October 23rd, 2017
• MFA program guest lecturer at the University of Hartford Art School, Hartford, CT, July 20th, 2017
• Painting workshop, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, MA, November 22nd, 2016
• Speaker at the 2016 Raab Associates Prize (Human Rights and Children's Literature) ceremony, The University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, November 10th, 2016
• Teen Outreach panelist at the CBC Diversity Initiative with Children's Book Council, Jamaica Plain, November 5th, 2016
• Kindling Words, Burlington, VT, January 28th–31st, 2016
• The University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, October 20th, 2015
• University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, MA, September 30th, 2015
• New England SCBWI, WHISPERING PINES Writers' Retreat, March 13th, 2015
• Speaker at the SCBWI Western Washington Illustrator Retreat, Federal Way, WA, October 3rd–5th, 2014
• Keynote speaker at the SCBWI 2014 Writers & Illustrators Working Conference, Austin, TX, February 8th–9th, 2014
• The University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, October 8th, 2013
• Artist Talk at the Niigata College of Art and Design, Niigata, Japan, May 24th, 2013
• New England SCBWI, WHISPERING PINES Writers' Retreat, March 22nd, 2013
• Advanced Illustrators Workshop, Workshop Leader for Highlights Foundation, August 30th–September 3rd, 2012
• "What's New in Children's Books?", Artist Talk at Boston College, November 13th, 2010
• "May Book Bonanza!", Books of Wonder, New York, NY, May 16th, 2010
• Entrepreneurial Exchange, The Stubbins Associates, Inc., Cambridge, MA, September 10th, 2003