PRESENTATIONS

Invited Presentations & Workshops

2025 Moderator, NEW WAVE Documentary Panel Q&A, Santa Ana Public Library, Frida Cinema,(Santa Ana, California)
2025 Keynote Speaker, SASA: SEA Success, Southeast Asian Student Association, UC Irvine, (Irvine, California)
2025 Guest Speaker, From Classroom to Career Session 01: Pathways in Libraries, Archives, and Media Preservation webinar, Art History Undergraduate Student Association, UC Irvine
2025 Moderator,NEW WAVE Book talk, Library Lane Lunar New Year Festival by Santa Ana Public Library, Centennial Park, (Santa Ana, California)
2023 Zine Workshop Facilitator, Creating Community Archives Through Recipes, Artspace, (Peterborough, Ontario)
2023 Workshop Co-Facilitator, “nhà bếp của EPN" (the kitchen of EPN), Together We Rise Festival, (Scarborough, Ontario)
2022 Panelist (Artist Talk). Shifting Articulations of Asian-ness in Contemporary Canada, online
2021 Guest Speaker (Artist Talk), Sheridan College, online
2021 Photovoice Workshop Facilitator, Just Environments, online
2021 Guest Speaker (Artist Talk), Sheridan College, online
2021 Zine Workshop Facilitator, Discovering the Story of You, UVSA Eastern Canada, online
2021 Panelist (Artist Talk), Reaching Across Generations Panel Discussion, Re:Frame Film Festival, online
2020 Moderator, PROFIT and LOSS: artists consider Viet Nam, the war and its effects, University of Toronto, (Toronto, Ontario)
2020 Panelist (Artist Talk), Shelter in the Storm: Asian American Studies Arts Episode 3 “The Archives,” online
2019 Workshop Presenter, SEA Storytelling: How to Make Your Own Zine, University of California Irvine, (Irvine, California)
2018 Guest Presenter (Artist Talk), OCAD University, (Toronto, Ontario)
2018 Workshop Presenter, UVSA Eastern Canada Leadership Summit, (Toronto, Ontario)
2018 Panelist (Artist Talk), Re: Collections Symposium Regent Park Film Festival, Toronto Media Arts Centre, (Toronto, Ontario)
2017 Presenter, A History of The Vietnamese-Canadian Community in Toronto, Toronto District School Board Asian Heritage Month Student Symposium, Central Technical School, (Toronto, Ontario)

Refereed Conference Presentations

2025 Presenter, The Future of Asian American Community Archives at the Association for Asian American Studies (Boston, Massachusetts)
2025 Moderator, AsAm GLAM and Cultural Heritage Early Professionals Roundtable at the Association for Asian American Studies, (Boston, Massachusetts)
2024 Presenter, Imagining Ethnic Studies Classrooms with Photovoice at the Association for Ethnic Studies Conference, (Re)Membering & Restoring Resistance in Ethnic Studies, (Bakersfield, California)
2023 Moderator, ‘Union’: Navigating Contemporary Art in Public, Institutional, and Digital Community Spaces, Association for Asian American Studies, (Long Beach, California)
2023 Panelist, NEW WAVE: Centering Vietnamese Joy in the Public Imagination, Association for Asian American Studies, (Long Beach, California)
2022 Poster Presentation, Care during COVID-19 at the Photovoice Conference: 30 Years of Photovoice, online
2022 Panelist, Conflict and Care: an intergenerational, transnational dialogue between feminist scholar-activists at Association for Asian American Studies Conference, (Denver, Colorado)
2021 Co-Presenter, Healing SEA Monsters Through Zines, Southeast Asian American Studies Conference, online
2021 Panelist, VOICE: Visualizing Our Identities and Cultures for Empowerment at the Association for Asian American Studies Conference, online
2021 Panelist, VOICE: Visualizing Our Identities and Cultures for Empowerment at the Annual Public Health Summit, University of California Irvine, online
2020 Presenter, SEAing More: Looking at Vernacular Photographs at the Southeast Asian Archive, Paper presented at the Association of Canadian Archivists Conference, (Vancouver, British Columbia)
2020 Panelist, Archiving Our Resilience: Memory, Identity, and Community in the South and Southeast Asian Diaspora at the Association for Asian American Studies Conference, Washington, D.C. (cancelled due to COVID-19)
2019 Panelist (Artist Talk), Millennial Southeast Asian Diasporic Artists on the New Frontier: Products of War, Code- Switching, Fractured Identities at the Association for Asian American Studies Conference, (Madison, Wisconsin)
2018 Presenter, Navigating Multiple Histories & Discrepancies in Understanding Nineteenth Century Photography in Viet Nam, Paper presented at Un-Histories Conference, OCAD University, (Toronto, Ontario)