Mobility Justice Talks
Moving Together: Building a Multiracial Infrastructure for Sustainable Transportation
Thu Oct 11 | 7:30pm
Steitz Lecture Hall | 711 E Boldt Way, Appleton WI
I gave an Environmental Studies lecture at Lawrence University.
Thu Oct 11 | 7:30pm
Steitz Lecture Hall | 711 E Boldt Way, Appleton WI
I gave an Environmental Studies lecture at Lawrence University.
Wed Oct 3 | 9:00am
As part of The Untokening's Transformative Talks webinar series, I joined Dr. Do Lee and Dr. Mimi Sheller to discuss how to hold space for mobility justice in the face of new pressures from the transportation industry.
Thu Oct 4 | 6:30pm
Santa Ana
I did my first Orange County reading at LibroMobile, a fantastic community space founded by Sarah Rafael García.
Sat Sep 29 | 6pm-12am
3554 W 1st Street | Los Angeles
At this party celebrating Bike!Bike! 2018, I gave a retrospective from 10 years of watching L.A.'s bike movement.
Sat Sep 22 | 6-8pm
G&O Family Cyclery | Seattle
I read from Bicycle/Race and talked about street planning, BIPOC organizing, and how I wish I'd been to places like Kampala.
Thu June 21 | 1pm
Museum of Photographic Arts | San Diego
I spoke about bicycling and borderlands at the first San Diego Regional Bike Summit, organized by the San Diego County Bicycle Coalition.
Sat June 9 | 3-6 pm
New LA Charter Middle School | Los Angeles
At this multimedia happening, we envisioned the past, present, and future of mobility justice along the 10 freeway corridor through West Adams/Mid-City. Legacies of the Street was the culmination of a year-long conversation with West Adams resident Yolanda T. Davis-Overstreet (pictured at right), with participation from Monique G. López of Pueblo and vocal artist Vera Lugo. Learn more about the event here.
Funding generously provided by Cal Humanities and event production by Dr. Sarah McCullough.
Jueves 17 de mayo | 15.20 a 16.50
Centre Museístic La Beneficència | València, España
Participatize - Taller con antropóloga Elisabeth Lorenzi
Viernes 18 de mayo | 10.30 a 12.00
Compleix Esportiu La Petxina | València, España
La bici como puente de justicia social: La red 'Bike Equity' en Estados Unidos - Ponencia con antropóloga Elisabeth Lorenzi
Wed May 9 | 6-8 pm
Sam Bond's Foundry | Eugene, OR
I gave my first reading from my new book Bicycle/Race: Transportation, Culture, & Resistance
2017. Lead Facilitator, Untokening California, Los Angeles, November 4.
2017. Keynote speaker, California Bicycle Summit, Sacramento, October 5.
2017. Plenary panelist, National Walking Summit, St. Paul, MN, September 14.
2017. Keynote speaker, Washington State Bicycle Summit, Olympia, March 20.
2016. Plenary moderator, “At the Intersection of Walkability & Equity: Why Race, Age, & Ability Matter for the Movement.” PedsCount! Summit, California Walks, Long Beach, CA, June 7.
2016. Guest speaker, Advocacy Leadership Institute. Cascade Bicycle Club, Seattle, May 4.
March 2016. I was a panelist on an Alliance for Biking & Walking distance learning webinar focused on "Active Transportation and Anti-Displacement." The organizer, Naomi Doerner, posted takeaways from the discussion on Streetsblog USA.
2016. Moderator, “Breaking Down the Barriers.” Sustainable Transportation Summit facilitated by EnviroCentre, Ottawa, ON, February 23.
2015. Moderator, “Pedaling Towards Equity: Advancing Bicycling in Underserved Communities.” Local Government Commission's Advancing Bicycling in the Capital Region Workshop, Sacramento, September 23.
2015. Panelist, “The Gentrification Issue: Are White Lanes Bike Lanes?” National Brotherhood of Cyclists Summit, Minneapolis, July 16.
2015. Plenary speaker at Youth Bike Summit, Seattle, February 14.
2014. Plenary speaker at Congress for the New Urbanism’s Equity + Transportation Summit, New York City, October 2.
2014. Plenary speaker at National Center for Bicycling and Walking’s Pro Walk/Pro Bike/Pro Place Conference, Pittsburgh, September 9.
2014. Plenary speaker at Open Streets National Summit, Los Angeles, April 4.
2013. Panelist, “Integrating Equity into Bicycle and Pedestrian Planning.” Professional Development Webinar Series, Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals, December 18.
2013. “Celebrating Diversity in Bicycle Culture.” Invited speaker at Portland Bureau of Transportation, Portland, OR, October 17.
2013. Panelist, “Design by Deferral.” Big City Forum Series, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, April 3.
2013. Panelist, “Community-Based Bicycle Advocacy: Building the Movement from the Ground Up.” National Women's Bicycling Forum, Washington, D.C., March 4.
2010. “Diversifying the Bike Movement.” Panelist at LA StreetSummit, Urban and Environmental Policy Institute, Occidental College, Los Angeles, March 20.
2009. “CicLAvia: A Ciclovía for Los Angeles?” Panelist at LA Bike Summit, Hosted by Urban and Environmental Policy Institute, Occidental College, at LA Trade Tech, Los Angeles, March 7.
Invited Academic Presentations
2016. Guest lecturer in Anthropology at Brandeis University, Boston, December 1-2.
2016. Panelist, Transportation and Communities Summit, Transportation Research and Education Center (TREC) at Portland State University, September 9.
2016. Guest speaker in graduate course on qualitative research methods, Program in Public Health, University of California, Irvine, January 26.
2015. “Multiple Worlds, Shared Streets: A Cross-Cultural Approach to Sustainable Transportation.” Invited by LiveMove and the University of Oregon Center for Latina/o and Latin American Studies, Eugene, OR, April 16.
2014. Guest speaker in graduate course “Engaging Contradictions,” Department of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine, November 11.
2013. Guest lecturer in undergraduate course “Culture, Health, and Healing.” Department of Anthropology, Portland State University, October 28.
2013. “Bicycling and Culture Change: Experimenting with Life in the Street.” Invited speaker at the Global Professions/Global Actions Series, University of California, Riverside, April 18.
2012. Guest lecturer in graduate course “Pedestrian and Bicycle Planning.” Department of Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles, October 11.
2012. "Bikes, Bodies, and Public Space: The Role of Human Infrastructure in Urban Transport." (Scroll down at link for audio file). Invited speaker at the Center for Transportation Studies, Portland State University, Portland, March 16.
Refereed Academic Presentations
2017. Panelist, “Hands-On Sustainability: Bio-Waste Recovery, Food Recovery, and Community Gardens.” Panel at the California Higher Education Sustainability Conference (CHESC). UC Santa Barbara, June 27.
2016. Discussant, “Post-Apocalypse Now!” Panel at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 19.
2016. Chair, “Bicycle Justice and Urban Transformation: Biking for All?” Roundtable at the Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Portland, OR, November 5.
2016. Co-facilitator, “Ethnolocating: Activating Human Infrastructure in Urban Design.” Workshop at Ethnography & Design: Mutual Provocations (CoLED Conference). UC San Diego, October 29.
2016. Chair, “Latina/o Urbanism in Practice” roundtable. Latina/o Studies Association Conference, Pasadena, CA, July 7.
2016. Panelist, “Learning Sustainability through Social Justice Curriculum.” California Higher Education Sustainability Conference (CHESC), June 29.
2016. “Bicycling and Environmental Racism: Steps toward Equitable Future Streets.” Paper presented at the Southwestern Anthropological Association Conference, San Diego, April 22.
2016. “Critical Sustainability as Pedagogy and Practice: The Case of USMA in Los Angeles.” Paper co-presented with Donald Strauss at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, March 29.
2015. “Desire and Infrastructure: Taking the Lane in Autopia.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Denver, November 19.
2014. “Connecting the DOTs: The Human Infrastructure of Transportation Expertise.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., December 6.
2014. Panelist, “On the Path to a Stronger Movement: Bike/Ped Equity from the Ground Up.” Pro Walk/Pro Bike/Pro Place, Pittsburgh, September 9.
2014. Panelist, “Space, Place, and Mobility in Latina/o Urban America.” Latina/o Studies Conference, Chicago, July 18.
2014. Panelist, “Engaging Diverse Communities.” WTS Annual Conference, Portland, OR, May 16.
2014. Panelist, “Youth, Equity, and Bicycle Advocacy.” Youth Bike Summit, New York City, February 15.
2013. “Making the Street Safe for...Bicycles? Using Ethnography to Humanize Future Transportation for Diverse Publics.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November 24.
2013. “Collectives and the Creative Class: Bicycling as Commodity and Practice.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Association, Chicago, May 25.
2013. “Critiquing Research and Advocacy to Make Change.” Presentation at Bicicultures Roadshow Symposium, Davis, CA, April 17.
2013. “The History and Future of Community and Place in Los Angeles' Bike Movement.” Paper presented at the panel “Change and Continuity: The Place of Community in Transition.” Adonia Lugo, co-organizer. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, April 13.
2013. Panelist, “Critical Mass at 20: What's Left and What's Right?” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, April 10.
2012. “Where the Ethnographer is Infrastructure: Embodying the Boundary Between Expertise and Everyday Life in Urban Space.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, November 15.
2012. “Bikes, Bodies, and Public Space.” Presentation at the World Cycling Research Forum (WOCREF), University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands, September 14.
2012. “CicLAvia as Human Infrastructure in Los Angeles.” Paper presented at the Cycling and Society Symposium. University of East London, London, UK, September 3.
2012. “Dehumanizing the City: Green Development and Profitable Places.” Paper presented at Anthropology in Transit Conference, UC Irvine, April 13.
2012. “Upsides and Downsides of Working on the Inside: Blogging as a Bike Activist during Ethnographic Fieldwork in Los Angeles.” Paper presented at the City as Laboratory Series at the Center for Ethnography. Adonia Lugo, organizer. UC Irvine, April 9.
2011. “Diverse City: Anthropology, Situationism, and DIY Bike Infrastructure in Los Angeles.” Paper presented at the panel “Redefining Urban Space: Multiple Mobilities in the Automobilized City.” Adonia Lugo, chair. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Montréal, November 16.
2011. “Including Immigrant Bike Commuters: How Bike Activists Connect Invisible Cyclists with Urban Planning in Los Angeles.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Salt Lake City, October 13.
2010. “Cyclists, Cycling, and the City: Identity and Mobility in a Changing Landscape.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, November 20.
2010. “Beyond Neoliberal Planning: Insurgent Cycling in Four American Built Environments.” Presentation at New Approaches to Individualization, Infrastructure, and Consumption Workshop, UC Irvine, June 15.
2010. “From Observer to Ethnographer: Flânerie on a Bicycle.” Paper presented at Urbanity on the Move: Planning, Mobility, and Displacement, UC Irvine, May 21.
Conferences Organized
2017. Untokening California, Los Angeles, November 4.
2016. The Untokening: A Convening for Just Communities and Streets, Atlanta, November 13.
2015. “Bicycling, Diversity, and Justice: The Opportunity and Challenge of Sustainable Transportation in Los Angeles.” Mid-semester student residency for Master of Arts in Urban Sustainability at Antioch University Los Angeles, July 23-26.
2014. Future Bike Conference, League of American Bicyclists, Pittsburgh, September 11.
2013. Bicicultures Roadshow Experimental Mobile Conference and Bicicultures Roadshow Symposium, Los Angeles and Davis, CA, April 10-17.
2012. City as Laboratory Series, Center for Ethnography, University of California, Irvine, April.
