Conference keynote presenter at the 2025 Sharjah School Library Conference, United Arab Emirates.
Left image: Charlotte Chung, Todd Burleson, Cherity Pennington, Becky Calzada Elizabeth Burns, & Dr. Margaret Merga
AASL Director at Large Candidate Forum
AASL President-Elect visit to Kansas Library Association Conference 2024
2025 ALA National Conference Panel Presentation with Emily Kirkpatrick, NCTE Executive Director, Dan Novack, PRH General Councel, & David Levithan, Author.
NCTE Presentation November 2023 - Holding Our Own: How Teachers, Authors, and Librarians Can Fight Book Bans and Protect Inclusive Curricula with authors George M. Johnson, Kelly Yang, Kyle Lukoff & Dashka Slater
SXSWEdu Panel Presentation 2024 - How To Be a Freedom Fighter with Betsy Gomez (OIF), author Angie Thomas, and SEAT Executive Director Cameron Samuels.
June 2024 ALA Conference Defending the Right to Read Panel
2025 Arkansas Library Association Conference advocacy panel presentation for ALA Policy Corp.
AASL Executive Board - 2025 AASL National Conference, St. Louis