Speaking Engagements

Speaking and Presentations

Together With Veterans Event, Nov 1st, 2022, St Helens, Oregon, Elks Lodge
Oregon Historical Society – Portland Oregon 2020
US Forest Service Region 6 GROW Conference 2020
Portland Winter Light Festival – February 2019
South San Francisco Library – January 2019
Speaker at Catlin Gabel School Veteran’s Day Celebration, 2018
William Joiner Institute, UMASS Boston, 2018
Longfellow House Reading, Warrior Writers, Cambridge MA, 2018
Utah Book Festival in Ogden, Utah Humanities 2018
Salt Lake City Public Library, Utah Humanities 2017
William Joiner Institute, UMASS Boston, 2017
Keynote speaker of 2016 Transition Projects, Inc Veteran’s Stand Down 2016
William Joiner Institute, UMASS Boston, 2016
Longfellow House Reading, Warrior Writers, Cambridge MA, 2016
Speaker at Catlin Gabel School Veterans Day Celebration, 2015
Speaker at The Fox Valley Book Fair, Appleton, Wisconsin, 2014
Keynote Speaker at Compose Writing Conference, Clackamas, Oregon, 2014
Keynote Speaker for Veterans’ Ball, Portland Community College, Portland, Oregon, 2014
Spokesperson and fundraiser for The Canticle of the Black Madonna opera (with a budget of $350,000), Portland, Oregon 2014
Reader at AWP: Seattle in 2014
Panelist for Write to Publish, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, 2013
Speaker for Portland Community College 2013
Speaker and Judge for St. Claire County Community College annual Art and Word Fair, Port Huron, Michigan, 2014