Happenings

  • NATOA 39th Government Programming Awards | Excellence for Historical/Cultural | Executive producer | Sept 2024
  • NATOA 39th Government Programming Awards | Honor for Special Audience | Executive producer | Sept 2024
  • Gather Round: A Community Story Sharing Event | PRESENTER | Denver Center for the Performing Arts/Auraris Campus | Sept 2024
  • The Word Margins In-Person Conference | PRESENTER | Wild Collaborations | Sept 2024
  • The Word Margins Virtual Conference | READER | Sept 2024
  • FRAME: A Literary Salon | READER | East Window Gallery, Boulder | Sept 2024
  • Hebrew Educational Alliance/KAVOD on the Road | screening | Host/Facilitator | Kesher: A West Side Jewish Connection | Aug 2024
  • Pueblo City/County Library District | SCREENING | Presenter | Reclaiming Denver’s Chinatown | July 2024
  • Colorado Healthcare Policy & Financing’s Asian American, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders Affinity Group | SCREENING | Reclaiming Denver’s Chinatown | June 2024
  • Denver Arts & Venues | Webb building public art project | Selection Panel | 2024
  • Heartland Emmys | Executive producer | Nominee | Cultural Documentary | May 2024
  • Heartland Emmys | Executive producer | Nominee | DEI short form | May 2024
  • University of Colorado System | SCREENING | Presenter | Reclaiming Denver’s Chinatown | May 2024
  • Naropa University | COBB PEACE LECTURER | April 2024
  • Capitol Hill United Neighborhoods | Women in HerStory | SCREENING | Presenter | Chicanas: Nurturers & Warriors | April 2024
  • Writing by Writers Big Bend Residency | FELLOW | March-April 2024
  • CU-Boulder OUE DEI Idea plan Implementation Team | Host/Facilitator | Screening | Reclaiming Denver’s Chinatown | February 2024
  • Kent Denver School | SCREENING | Host/Facilitator | Five Points | February 2024
  • AWP 2024 Annual Conference & Bookfair, Philadelphia, PA | HOST/PRESENTER | Holding Space: Creating a Safe and Supportive Virtual Writing Group | February 2024
  • Macondo Writers AWP Meetup & Readings | READER | February 2024  
  • MCA Denver at the Holiday Theater | SOLD-OUT SCREENING | Host/Facilitator | Kesher: The West Side Jewish Connection | January 2024
  • We Are the West: Tributaries Book Launch | READER | Petals & Pages Denver | December 2023
  • Denver Film Festival | SOLD-OUT Official selection | Host/Facilitator | Kesher: A West Side Jewish Connection | November 2023
  • Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Denver | INSTRUCTOR | Denver History Through Resident Storytelling | October/November 2023
  • Ragdale | RESIDENCY | Nineteen days | October 2023
  • Adelante Colorado, Latino Community Foundation of Colorado, “Storytelling to Build Community” | FACILITATOR | June 2023
  • Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Administrators Conference | KEYNOTE | March 2023
  • Writing by Writers Workshop, Boulder | March 2023
  • Macondo Writers AWP Meetup & Readings | READER | March 2023
  • Storyknife AWP Reading & Gathering | READER | March 2023
  • AWP 2023 Annual Conference & Bookfair, Seattle, WA | Attendee | March 2023
  • Université Sorbonne Paris Nord | La production de représentations ordinaires du territoire par des dispositifs de «storytelling participatif» | PRESENTER | October 2022
  • 49 Writers’ Live from Storyknife: October | READER | October 2022
  • Vermont Studio Center | FICTION JURIST | June 2022
  • Tortillas for Tepeyac Fundraiser | CELEBRITY ROLLER | June 2022
  • AWP 2022 Annual Conference & Bookfair, Philadelphia, PA | ATTENDEE
  • Denver Human Services | 2022 Unsung Community Leader | October 2022
  • Live from Storyknife: October | READER | October 2022
  • Storyknife Writers Residency | Four weeks | October 2022
  • Latinas First Foundation | TRAILBLAZER AWARD | September 2022
  • History Colorado | Josephine H. Miles Award for Major Contribution to the Advancement of Colorado History | August 2022
  • Elsewhere Studios | FELLOW | Two weeks | July 2022
  • XicanIndie Film Festival | Premio Omacatl Cultural Heritage Award for “Chicanas: Nurturers and Warriors” | April 2022
  • Aspen Words Arts | RICARDO SALINAS SCHOLAR IN FICTION | September 2021
  • Governance Matters Magazine | Interview | 2021
  • The Situation & the Story Podcast | Using stories to correct the past and shape the future | January 2021
  • Theater 29 Gallery of Colorado Creative Artists | Reading | Summer 2020
  • Denver’s Chief Storyteller on the Power of Stories to Engage Your Community | KLA | Interview | October 2019
  • Poets & Writers, My MFA Experience, Candid Reports from Writers | Interview | September 2019
  • Dot Org: Empathy Museum | INTERVIEW | August 2019
  • 2019 Colorado Health Symposium, The Intersection of Housing, Health and Inequity | Featured Presenter | July 2019
  • ‘Chief Storytellers’: The Newest City Trend? | U.S. News & World Report | Interview | May 2019
  • PEN America’s World Press Freedom Day Denver | Featured storyteller | May 2019
  • What Denver’s ‘Chief Storyteller’ Can Teach You About Listening | Bloomberg Cities | Interview | May 2019
  • Denver Launches an Office of Storytelling | Westword | Interview | March 2019
  • RED I Am Denver Launch Video | Interview | March 2019
  • Classic Chicago Magazine | Riding Out the Vortex at Ragdale | Interview | February 2019
  • MSU 50 anniversary campaign | TV spots, bus and bus shelter advertising, and billboards in both English and Spanish | FEATURED ALUMNA | 2016
  • MSU | Our People| Website| FEATURED ALUMNA | 2016