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JOURNALISM & THE MEDIA INDUSTRY
Living Through & Learning from Dynamic Political Discourse (Page Up Conference, Dec. 2020)
Tech and the Future of News: The New Creators (Reboot Conference, Nov. 2020)
Technology & transformation -- How will we get news in the 2020s? (FT Future of News, Oct. 2020)
Informed and Engaged Episode 4 with Millie Tran, Stacy-Marie Ishmael and Neil Chase (Knight Foundation, July 2020)
What Does a Successful Media Company Look Like in 2015? (Indie Media Camp, Brooklyn, Nov. 2015)
LEADERSHIP & HOW TO THINK ABOUT YOUR CAREER
How to be a leader, no matter your role or job title (Lenfest Institute, December 2020)
So You’re a Student in a Pandemic. Where Do You Go From Here? (AAJA, August 2020)
Dallas Morning News workshop (November 2018)
NPR Women of Color workshop (November 2018)
Time to grow: How to dig deep and stretch yourself in the midst of day-to-day survival (SRCCON, Minneapolis, June 2018)
Faculty for Poynter's Leadership Academy for Women in Digital Media (Poynter, St. Petersburg, March 2018)
What Am I Going to Do With My Life? (SND, New York, March 2018)
What’s next: How to nurture growth in the face of burnout (SRCCON:Work, Philadelphia, Dec. 2017)
NEWSROOM CULTURE
Behind the scenes of the BuzzFeed phenomenon (Strelka Institute, Moscow, August 2016)
After the altar call—maintaining momentum, community, and inspiration beyond conferences (SRCCON, Minneapolis, June 2015)
#LetsTalkCulture panel (Vox Media, NYC, March 2015)
PRODUCT & TECH
Addressing Ethical Dilemmas: Image in the age of A.I. (PhotoVogue, Nov. 2021)
Newsletters: The New Flagship Media Product (SXSW, March 2021)
Women in Product — Women’s Leadership Accelerator Summer Series (ONA, Sept. 2020)
Product Management: How news organizations can become more audience-oriented, data-driven and product-focused (Video here) (ISOJ, July 2020)
Why your bot is nothing without a human (SRCCON, Portland, July 2016)
Product managing your newsletter (Online News Association, Los Angeles, Sept. 2015)
Simple, frequent emails that people read (Inbox Awesome, NYC, July 2015)
Mobile apps: Not just a small screen (ONA NYC, Jan. 2015)
AUDIENCE DATA & STRATEGY
Making Analytics Useful to Journalists: Best Practices and Core Principles (ONA20, Oct. 2020)
Crescimento, engajamento e relevância: o que vale no diálogo com a audiência (Video) (Festival 3i, Rio de Janeiro, Oct. 2019)
Facebook, Google, Medium: Comment Mettre Les Plateformes Au Service Du Média ? Le Cas Du New York Times (Video) (Médias en Seine, Paris, Oct. 2019)
Médias-Plateformes : Le Temps Du Dialogue? (Video) (Médias en Seine, Paris, Oct. 2019)
ISOJ Keynote Speech (Video) (Austin, Texas, April 2019)
Editing HERStory (Mizzou Women in Media and ONA Mizzou, March 2019)
dotNYC Live (YouTube link) (CUNY Social Media weekend, NYC, June 2016)
INTERNATIONAL GROWTH & EXPANSION
Seeking Growth in an International Audience (ONA Insights, Toronto, May 2018)
Email > App > Global Adaptation (pre-talk write-up) (Society for News Design, San Francisco, April 2016)
Translation, transcription & working with multiple languages (Hacks/Hackers NYC, March 2016)
Hacks/Hackers Connect (NYC, Feb. 2016)