INVITED TALKS AND DISCUSSANT WORK

“Looking at Labor: Who Benefits from Domestic Service?” UW Tacoma Labor Solidarity Project, October 2025
“Evolutions of Domestic Labor: Service-Performing Devices in United States Homes and Lived Spaces.” Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, May 2025
“Mammies, Media, and Laborsaving Devices: Aunt Jemima Ads as Catalysts for Contemporary Virtual Assistants.” Ford Fellows Conference, National Academies, June 2024
“Racialized Sound in U.S. Cinema: AI Voices and Vocal Performances.” Keynote Lecture, Environmental and Postcolonial Media Theories Research Colloquium. UC Santa Barbara, May 2024
“The Sound of Her Voice: Vocal Performances of Race, Gender, and Subjecthood in Spike Jonze’s Her.” Performance Studies Summer Institute, Northwestern University, July 2023
“Mechanical Maids: Virtual Assistants and Black Women’s Labor Histories.” School of Communication Graduate Research Symposium, February 2022
“Alexa, Siri, and Aunt Jemima: How Black Women’s Labor Haunts AI Assistants.” Office of Fellowships Dissertation Research Salon, Northwestern University, May 2021