I weave decolonial truth and embodied presence into spaces where liberation can take root.
As a designer, research worker, and storyteller rooted in intersectional movements across borders and lineages, I bring relational rigor and poetic urgency to audiences seeking nuanced conversations that require dissent and resisting the status quo. If you're looking to hold space grounded in cultural reclamation and decolonial truth, let's nurture something transformative together. When you're ready to explore what's possible, feel free to reach out and connect.
Talks and Presentations
Zine-Making as a Practice of Research Justice, October 2025
Unframing Knowledge: Artistic Research Beyond Theory and Practice (Naples)
Decolonizing Our Lives: Experiments and Practices for Postcolonial Change, August 2025
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
Imagining Possibilities: Researching what could be(come), May 2025
MA Digital Management, Hyper Island
Disrupting Imperial Feminism: Queer-Feminist Ustopias for Collective Liberation, April 2025
Embodying Feminism: Calling In, Calling Out, Calling to Action by UW System Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium (Madison, Wisconsin)
Co-Design as a Form of Community Organizing, March 2025
Community Privacy Residency (Taipei)
Rejecting Pinkwashing and Homonationalism: Cultivating Pathways for Collective Liberation, September 2024
Freedom Advocacy Network
Liberatory Research, June 2024
Work Out Loud Series, RMIT University
Genderful Fashion: Leveraging Creative Technologies for Design and Innovation, June 2024
Multicultural Women’s National Conference by Seramount (Chicago, Illinois)
Slides
Co-Design: A Sitcom of Collaboration?, April 2024
Next Gen Conference 2024 by Service Design Network
Slides
Cultivating Design Ecologies of Care, Community, and Collaboration, October 2023
DesignOps Summit 2023 by Rosenfeld Media
Slides
Mining Humans and Data Extraction: The Costs of Design Research, May 2023
NERD Take Five - New Experimental Research in Design (Berlin)
Slides
The Poetics of Everyday Abolition: A Love Language, April 2023
Sustaining Hope: Feminisms, Freedom, and the Future by UW System Women’s and Gender Studies Consortium
Cyborg Bodyminds: Transcending Humanism, March 2023
moz://a festival 2023
Slides
Shift Power. Share Power.: Centering Students in Transformation, March 2023
2023 Conference on Diversity, Equity, and Student Success by Association of American Colleges & Universities
The Politics of Radical Research: From Extraction to Collective Liberation, March 2023
Advancing Research 2023 by Rosenfeld Media
Slides | Sketch Notes
Panels and Podcasts
Decolonisation, Liberation & Design: Reimagination as a tool for Collective Healing, July 2025
Design to Connect with Pause and Effect
Recording
Decolonizing Marketing: Learning from Indigenous Wisdom, April 2025
Regenerative Marketing Playground by Zebra Growth
Co-Panelists: Ashanti Kunene, John Fullerton, Tania Lo
Moderated by Moh Al-Haifi
The Existence of Queer and Trans People Across the South, Southwest Asia and North Africa (SSWANA) Region, January 2025
Middle East Insights Platform, Hosted by Dr. Shubhda Chaudhary
Recording
Joy, Transformation, and Design as Creative Liberation, October 2024
Design Thinking 101 Podcast by Dawan Stanford
Recording
Industry Junctures: Paths forward for UXR and the critical decisions that get us there,
Advancing Research Community Workshop Series, October 2024
Co-Panelists: Nidhi Singh Rathore, Robert Fabricant
Recording
Disability Pride Month: A Panel Discussion, June 2024
Inclusion Talks! by AndHumanity
Co-Panelists: Anda Fabrig, Joanna McElnea, Kristin Bower
Decentralizing Power through Design, August 2023
The Rosenfeld Review Podcast by Lou Rosenfeld
Recording
Trauma-Informed Engagement, July 2023
Co:mmunity Conference by co:census
Co-Panelists: Sabrina Meherally
Recording
I Don’t Want a Seat at Your Table, March 2023
Absolutely Not! by K Mataōtama Strohl
Redlining: Mapping Segregation and Urban Migration, March 2023
The Space Between Us: Land, Migration, and Human Rights by NUCHR
Co-Panelists: Hoda Katebi, Michael Schwarz