Co-presenter: Beyond Hoping for Peaceful Transfers of Power: Overcoming Tumultuous Transitions and Transformations through Planning for Specialized Writing Centers, (with Jeffrey Turner, Aileen Brenner, Nicole Cox, and Kate Egerton), CCCC (Convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication), Chicago, IL, Feb. 16, 2023
Co-presenter: Peaceful Transfers of Power: Lessons in Creating Positive Change During Tumultuous Transitions and Transformations for Specialized Writing Centers, (with Jeffrey Turner, Andrea Hamlen, and Kate Egerton). IWCA Conference (International Writing Centers Association), Vancouver, BC, Oct. 27, 2022.
Presenter: Front-line Work with Student Writers: Stress and Trauma in the Writing Center, Second Language Symposium, Tempe, AZ, November 13, 2019.
Presenter: The Art of Tutoring: Dealing with Stress and Trauma in the Writing Center, IWCA Conference (International Writing Centers Association), Columbus, OH, October 13, 2019.
Presenter: Managing the Neurodiverse Writing Centre, Canadian Writing Centres’ Association (CWCA) conference, Vancouver, BC, May 30, 31, 2019.
Co-presenter: From Papers to Pictures: Mentoring ESL Students with Multimodal Projects, (with Christina Grant), TESOL International Convention (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages), Atlanta, GA, March 15, 2019.
Co-presenter: Defining Community: Establishing and Reestablishing a Writing Center Program Identity, (with Lisa Bell, Duane Theobald, and Matthew Nelson), IWCA Conference, Atlanta, GA, October 10, 2018.
Co-presenter: Indigenizing the Writing Class: Elder-guided pedagogies to foster intercultural competence, (with Christina Grant), Second Language Symposium, Vancouver, BC, August 3, 2018.
Co-presenter: Austerity, Labor Conditions, and Academic Freedom in Higher Education: Leveraging Writing for Democratic Work in Public Spheres, (with John Trimbur, Nancy Welch, Chowaing Belekeh, Shannon Carter, Seth Kahn, and Jessica Philbrook), CCCC (Convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication), Portland, OR, March 15-28, 2017.
Presenter: Bridging Students’ Writing Skills and the Demands of Academic Writing, TESOL International Convention (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages), Baltimore, MD, April 2016.
Presenter: Long Night Against Procrastination: The Do’s and Don’ts. IWCA (International Writing Centers Association), Pittsburgh, PA, October 10, 2015.
Co-organizer and co-presenter: Long Night Against Procrastination: The Organizers’ Experience, (with Silvia Sgaramella), Canadian Writing Centres’ Association (CWCA) Conference, Ottawa, ON, May 2015.
Organizer and lead presenter: Opportunities, Engagement, and Support: The Future of Leadership in TESOL, (with Jun Liu, Aya Matsuda, Brock Brady, Kyung-Hee Bae, and Ali Fuad Selvi), TESOL International Convention, Toronto, ON, March 2015.
Presenter: Long-term Effects of Writing Center Tutoring Sessions on Student Revisions, IWCA (International Writing Centers Association), Orlando, FL, October 2014.
Co-presenter: Writing Center Research: A Portal for Professionalizing Undergraduate Staff, (with Carol Mohrbacher, Tim Fountaine, and Julia Combs), IWCA, Orlando, FL, October 2014.
Presenter: Long-term Effects of Writing Centre Tutorials: How to Design Such an Ambitious Study, CWCA Conference, St. Catharines, ON, May 2014.
Co-presenter: Accessing the Future of Writing Studies: Disruption and Dialogue via International Higher Education Writing Research, CCCC (Convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication), Indianapolis, IN, March 2014.
Co-organizer, full-day Pre-Conference Institute: Multilingual Writers and Writing Centers: Research, Student, and Faculty Perspectives, (with Tara Smith, Jennifer Staben, and Katie Manchester Ha), TESOL International Convention (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages), Portland, OR, March 2014.
Co-presenter: Strategizing for Tenure: Linguistic and Racial Minorities in Higher Education, (with Ana Wu, Masaki Oda, Suhanthie Motha, Joann Sugihara, and Shelly Wong), TESOL International Convention, Portland, OR, March 2014.
Co-presenter: Toward More Responsive Writing Center Models for L2 Support (with Norman Evans and Matthew Allen), TESOL International Convention, Dallas, TX, March 2013.
Presenter: What Should Really Happen in Writing Centers? ESL Students’ Perspectives, TESOL International Convention, Dallas, TX, March 2013.
Invited co-presenter: Demystifying Academic Career Paths for Nonnative Graduate Students and Scholars (with Ryuko Kubota, Katya Nemtchinova, Ling Shi, Xueson Gao, Manka Varghese, and Yilin Sun), TESOL International Convention, Dallas, TX, March 2013.
Co-presenter: Innovative Possibilities for Writing Centres in Canadian Universities: Options for Working With ESL Wtudents, (with Betsy Sargent and Christina Grant), Inkshed Conference, Toronto, ON, May 2012.
Co-presenter: Examining Methodological Complexities in Second Language Writing research (with Alan Hirvela, Tony Silva, Silvia Pessoa, and Lisya Seloni), TESOL International Convention, Philadelphia, PA, March 2012.
Organizer and lead presenter: Saying No to Cookie Cutter Tutoring: Writing Center Tutor Training (with Helena Hall and Marian Gonsior), TESOL International Convention, Philadelphia, PA, March 2012.
Chair of the roundtable and lead presenter: New Kid on the Block (part of “Collaboration, Competition, Coordination, Compromise: The 4Cs of Multi-campus Writing Centres”), (with Sheena Wilson, Stephen Kuntz, and Craig Peterson). CCCC (Convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication), Atlanta, GA, April 2011.
Presenter: ESL Students’ Needs vs. Writing Centres’ Philosophy. TESOL International Convention, New Orleans, LA, March 2011.
Presenter: Investigating Collaboration, Competition, Coordination, and Compromise in Multi-campus Writing Centres, IWCA Conference (International Writing Centers Association), Baltimore, MD, November 2010.
Invited colloquium speaker: Writing Centres—Creating and Shaping Transition, Learn, Flourish, Graduate (with Nancy Marenick and Cleo Boyd). STLHE Conference (Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education), Toronto, ON, June 2010.
Co-presenter: Strangers Here Ourselves: How NNESTs Work with Multilingual Writers (with Jun Liu, Icy Lee, Luciana de Oliveira, and Ryuko Kubota). TESOL International Convention, Denver, CO, April 2009.
Presenter: Tutor Development through Community Building in, Between, and Outside the Classroom, IWCA Conference, Las Vegas, NV, October 2008.
Co-presenter: A World of Writing Centers: The Impact of National Culture on Writing Center Theory and Pedagogy, (with Kathleen Shine), IWCA Conference, Las Vegas, NV, October 2008.
Organizer and lead presenter: English Language Proficiency and Writing Skills at Ryerson University (with Marju Toomsalu), Ryerson Faculty Conference, Toronto, ON, May 2008.
Invited colloquium speaker: Research-Development across TESOL Entities: Actions, Impact, and Future Directions, (with Denise Murray, Deena Boraie, Keiko Abe-ford, Jane Orr, and Liz England), TESOL International Convention, New York, NY, March 2008.
Co-presenter: 10 Years Later: The NNEST Movement, (with Jun Liu, Lia Kamhi-Stein, Ahmar Mahboob, and Aya Matsuda), TESOL International Convention, New York, NY, March 2008.
Invited colloquium speaker: Research Symposium: Native English Speaking Teachers, Nonnative English Speaking Teachers, (with Luciana de Oliveira and Farahnaz Faez), TESL Ontario Conference, Toronto, ON, November 23, 2007.
Organizer and lead presenter: ESL Support to International MBA Students: An Idea Worthy of Investigation, (lead presenter; with Mark Patterson, Simon Zhou, and Alberto Tavarez), Ryerson Faculty Conference, Toronto, ON, May 2007.
Organizer and lead presenter: IEP Administrators vs. TESOL Teacher Educators, (with Stephanie Vandrick, Emily Day, and Silvio Avendano), TESOL International Convention, Seattle, WA, March 2007.
Presenter: ESL Students’ Attitudes Towards NESTs and NNESTs, TESOL International Convention, Seattle, WA, March 2007.
Invited guest presenter at a pre-conference leadership forum: New Leaders’ Forum, (with Luciana de Oliveira, Lia Kamhi-Stein, Rosie Maum, Alyse Breitbach, Wen-Chi Lu, and Shao-Wei Wang), TESOL International Convention, Tampa, FL, March 13, 2006.
Organizer and lead presenter: From International Students to Successful Scholars, (with Seran Aktuna, Soohyang Kim, Enric Llurda, Gloria Park, and Youngjoo Yi), TESOL International Convention, Tampa, FL, March 16, 2006.
Co-lead presenter: Exploring NNESTs’ Language Proficiency, (with Ahmar Mahboob, Antoinette Gagne, Ofra Inbar, Lia Kamhi-Stein, Ebru Ezberci, and Bill Snyder), TESOL International Convention, Tampa, FL, March 17, 2006.
Co-presenter, All Caucus Colloquium: Caucus Strategies for Leading TESOL Internationally, (with Jose Castillo, Karen Asenavage, Marinus Stephan, Eleanor Pease, Tomas Wallis, Rosemary Schmid), TESOL International Convention, Tampa, FL, March 17, 2006.
Co-presenter: Second Language Writing Curriculum Design: A Case Study, (with Tony Silva, Yufeng Zhang, Tom Glass, Elizabeth Patton, and Brita Banitz), CCCC, Chicago, IL, March 22, 2006.
Invited speaker: The Graduate Student Experience: Challenges and Achievements, (with Jeanne Lee, Edelmira Nickels, and Karl E. Uhrig), INTESOL Conference (Indiana TESOL), Indianapolis, IN, October 21, 2005.
Co-presenter: World Englishes and (Socio) Linguistic Innovations, (with Margie Berns, Thomas Glass, Robert Nelson, and Dilbarhon Hasanova), AILA/AAAL Conference (14th World Congress of Applied Linguistics), Madison, Wisconsin, July 29, 2005.
Presenter: The ‘Native Speaker’ in TESOL: Discrimination or Necessity? IAWE Conference (International Association for World Englishes), Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, July 23, 2005.
Co-presenter, Board Sponsored Colloquium: NNES teachers as mentors and cultural mediators, (with Elza Major, Tünde Csepelyi, Luciana de Oliveira, and Lia Kamhi-Stein), CA-TESOL Conference (California TESOL), Long Beach, California, March 4, 2005.
Presenter: Nonnative English-speaking teachers and student feedback on a blog, INTESOL Conference (Indiana TESOL), Indianapolis, Indiana, November 6, 2004.
Presenter: Sociolinguistic profile of English in Switzerland, IAWE Conference (International Association for World Englishes), Syracuse, New York, July 15, 2004.
Co-presenter at the Featured Colloquium: Addressing Nonnative-English-Speaking Teachers’ and Teacher Educators’ Needs, (with Paul Matsuda, Karen Johnson, Catherine Walter, George Braine, and Lía Kamhi-Stein), TESOL International Convention, Long Beach, California, April 1, 2004.
Co-presenter: Empowering NNES MATESOL in career development, (with Silvia Pessoa, Alejandra Reyes-Cejudo, and Fabiana Sacchi), TESOL International Convention, Baltimore, Maryland, March 2003
Presenter: Nonnative English-speaking ESL teachers: Reactions of their students, I-TESOL Conference (Intermountain TESOL), Ogden, Utah, October 2001
Co-presenter: Innovative Possibilities for Writing Centres in Canadian Universities: Options for Working With ESL Wtudents, (with Betsy Sargent and Christina Grant), Inkshed Conference, Toronto, ON, May 2012.
Presenter: The ‘Native Speaker’ in TESOL: Discrimination or Necessity? IAWE Conference (International Association for World Englishes), Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, July 23, 2005.