Upcoming Engagements

• “Moon Marked and Touched By Sun: Confronting the Roots of Active Living Inequities”.  Innovations in Behavioral and Social Health Sciences (i-BSHS) Seminar Committee, Brown University, Providence, RI, April 25, 2025.

Selected Past Engagements

• “In Nature, Nothing is Perfect and Everything is Perfect”. HHMI Health Equity and the Environment Program. University of California, Los Angeles, CA, October 14, 2024.

• “The GENTS Study”. Obesity-Related Policy, Systems, and Environmental Research in the U.S. (OPUS) Workshop Series, National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research (NCCOR), October 9-10, 2024.

• “Admiration for Nature Can Save Us: Dismantling White Wilderness and Dignifying Black Biophilia”. NatureRx Program, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, September 23, 2024.

• “Since When Have Trees Existed Only For White Folks?”: Understanding  Nature’s Color Line and Inequities”.  Nature and Health: A Cells to Society Approach, Brown University, Providence, RI, September 19-20, 2024.

• “Nature and Equity: Perspectives of the Nature and Health Alliance”. II International Symposium on Nature & Health: Building Bridges for Human Well-being and Conservation” at Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, August 23-24, 2024.Week of Equity and Acton. Carefirst Blue Cross Blue Shield, Washington, DC, July 15, 2024.

• “Caste Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, Anti-Blackness: The Root of Health Inequities and Disparities”. Revolutionizing Research for Social Change Summer Institute, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, June 28, 2024

• “Recognizing Our Influence, Success and Essence: Why We Matter”. Women of Color Summit, Niagara Falls, NY, June 5-6, 2024.

• “Strange Renderings of Nature: Working to Dismantle White Wilderness and Dignify Black Biophilia”. Nature and Health Symposium, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, May 1, 2024.

• “White Men’s Roads Through Black Men’s Homes: How Environmental Racism Shaped New York Roadways and Cities”. 2024 Speak Life! Health Equity Conference. Common Ground Health, Asbury First United Methodist Church, Rochester, NY, April 25, 2024.

• “Nature for All: Increasing Access to Nature Among Diverse Populations”. Arts and Science of Health Promotion Conference, Hilton Head, SC, April 8-12. 2024.

• “From Negro Removal to Highway Removal: Understanding How Environmental Racism Continues To Shape Buffalo”. East Side Parkways Coalition, Frank E. Merriweather, Jr. Branch Library, Buffalo, NY, April 4, 2024.

• “My Only Sin Is My Skin: Confronting Racism in Active Living”. Exercise and Nutrition Sciences Departmental Seminar Series. Milken Institute School of Public Health. The George Washington University, Washington, DC, March 22, 2024.

• “Since When Have Trees Existed Only For White Folks?: Understanding the Racism that Creates Nature Inequity”. Healing Communities by Removing Highways. East Side Parkways Coalition, Frank E. Merriweather, Jr. Branch Library, Buffalo, NY, February 22, 2024.

• “We Are Each Other’s Harvest.  We Are Each Magnitude and Bond.”: Understanding the Racialization of Nature”. NatureRx Initiatives. University of Connecticut, October 2-3, 2023.

• “From Environmental Racism to Environmental Reparation: The Story of One American City”. School of Social Work. University of New York at Buffalo, September 18, 2023.

• “What’s She Made Of”. Invited Key Note Speaker. WNY Women’s Foundation, Buffalo, NY, May 22, 2023.

• “Buffalo’s Emerald Necklace: An Active Living Injustice”. Department of Kinesiology and Community Health. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 14, 2023.

• Conference Co-Chair Opening Remarks. “My Only Sin Is My Skin” Video, Created and Edited by Dr. Jennifer D. Roberts. Active Living Conference, National Institutes of Health, Natcher Center Auditorium, Bethesda, MD, March 14, 2023.

• “Race, History, and Rock Creek - Nature as Healing”, Rock Creek Conservancy, Washington, DC, February 28, 2023.

• “I Can’t Breathe: Environmental Racism in the United States”. Center for the Elimination of Minority Health Disparities. University of New York at Albany, February 24, 2023.

• “Active Living Environments: Patterned by Race and Place”. School of Social Work. University of New York at Buffalo, February 13, 2023.

• “Nature Draws No Color Line: Until Man’s Racism Is Unleashed”. Grand Challenges of Our Time – A Course By Dr. Darryll Pines, University of Maryland President. University of Maryland, College Park, MD, October 17, 2022.

• “Parks, Buses, Pools and More: Healthy and Safe Outdoor Spaces in the Age of COVID-19”. Safer Spaces Program, Health Design Lab at Thomas Jefferson University and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Washington, DC, May 6, 2022.

• “Moving In Color: Confronting Racism in America’s Transportation”.  The John Ruffin Lecture. NIH/National Institute on Aging, Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Sciences, Health Disparities Research Section, Bethesda, MD, March 11, 2022.

• “Black Bodies in Green and Blue Spaces: A Look at Racism, Nature, and Health”. Research Seminar, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, February 28, 2022.

• “Structural Racism and Health: The Root of Health Disparities”. Invited Speaker to Black History Month Celebration, Social Justice Advisory Committee, Office of the Montgomery County Council , Rockville, MD, February 16, 2022.