Speaking and Advocacy

I am currently accepting speaking opportunities for panels, guest lectures, and more on composing, designing and implementing dynamic music, and freelancing in games!

Academic Guest Lectures

Spring 2022: Berklee College of Music, Game and Interactive Media Scoring
Spring 2020: Parsons The New School, Core Lab: Collaborations
Fall 2019: NYU Game Center, Audio For Digital Games
Fall 2019: Bloomfield College, Game Design Capstone

Conferences and Events

Winter 2023: Berklee College of Music, Building an Interactive Musical Landscape
Explored the history and broad strokes of creating dynamic music and dove into my process writing interactive music for Mixoluma, MEATPUNKS, and Freshly Frosted.

Fall 2023: APRA AMCOS’ High Score Keynote, Collaborating and Crafting Audio with Heart
Gave an opening keynote discussing the journey of my career, and how I learned to compromise less when it comes to the kinds of work I make, how I treat my body while working, and the environments I work in.

Fall 2020: APRA AMCOS’ High Score, The Sound of Best Friend Forever,
Co-talk with Starcolt Gamerunner Calliope Ryder, discussing the making of the soundtrack for Best Friend Forever, focusing on collaboration, and queering instrumentation.

Spring 2020: GDC Audio Track, Making it Happen: Creating Their Own Games,
Paneling on how the programming, writing, and creative work I’ve done for personal games made in Unity and Bitsy has improved my perspectives and skills as an audio developer. [Canceled]

Winter 2020: MAGFest, Thinking Long-term as an Audio Freelancer
On a panel with amazing fellow audio devs, Laura Platt, Neha Patel, Hassan DuRant, and Braxton Burks, discussing sustainability and adaptability in audio freelancing.

Fall 2019: Game Sound Con, Making it Happen: Creating Their Own Games,
Discussed with co-panelists how the programming, writing, and creative work I’ve done for personal games made in Unity and Bitsy has improved my perspectives and skills as an audio developer.

Spring 2019: GDC Audio Bootcamp, Indie Freelancing: Creating Community and Collaboration, 
Advocated for developers to think about the roles they play within larger communities and shared ways that people could create more sustainability and opportunity for themselves and others while freelancing.

Winter 2019: Audio Bash, Working and Thinking Collaboratively as an Audio Freelancer
Spoke on rethinking the lessons we are told as freelancers and encouraged audio developers to approach working in the industry with a community mindset.

Winter 2019: MAGFest, Career Paths in Audio,
Joined industry professionals Marc Straight, Isabella Ness, and Novil Fullen to discuss the many different ways you can work in or adjacent to games.

Spring 2018: PAX East, Press XY Presents: Gender Identity in Narrative & Gameplay.
Helped organize a panel to discuss examples and issues regarding trans and non-binary representation in game storytelling and mechanics.

Spring 2018: East Coast Games Conference, Talking Chop: The Intertwined Histories of Sampling and Video Game Music
I gave a 40 minute talk and Q&A discussing the history of audio sampling and how that bloomed into an interesting composition technique adopted by video game composers and still being perfected today.

Please feel free to get in touch if you’d like me to speak at your event or class!