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Speaking Engagements
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Tribeca Film Festival | Disability Inclusion and Accessibility: Lessons from the making of All You Hear is Noise | Panel Cohost
Indeed Lounge at Spring Studios | New York | June 8, 2023
ReelAbilities Film Festival | Industry Summit
Disability Inclusion and Equity in Film + Performing Arts
Crip Script Pitch Panel Judge | New York | October 2023
RespectAbility | Audio Description Lab | Virtual Cohort | Instructor | August 29, 2023
NYU Tisch School of the Arts | Film Department | Audio Description Guest Lecturer | Fundamental Film Class | April 27, 2023
Previous Speaking Engagements
60th New York Film Festival | Audio Described Film Content Panel | Inclusive Visions|
October 13, 2022 | 6:00pm EST
ReelAbilities Film Festival | Chair of Film Accessibility |
Los Angeles | October 2022
ReelAbilities Film Festival Los Angeles
RespectAbility | Audio Description Lab | Los Angeles | Virtual Cohort | Instructor | August 30, 2022
SUNY | Audio Description Panel | Desire, Reality and In Between | Panelist | Virtual April 26, 2022
Women in Film Los Angeles | Instructor |
Audio Description Workshop | March 2022
Emerson College | Visual and Media Arts Dept | Accessible Cinema | Guest Lecturer | February 7, 2021
San Francisco State University | Audio Description Guest Lecturer |
Journalism Department | Audio Description Overview |
December 6, 2021
Montclair State University | Audio Description Guest Lecturer |
Media & Disability Department | November 30, 2021 | 4:00pm PST
NYU Tisch School of the Arts | Film Department | Audio Description Guest Lecturer | Fundamental Film Class | November 23, 2021
SOVAS Career Expo | Audio Description Panel | The "Heart" of Audio Description | Moderator and Curator |
November 20, 2021 12:20pm PST
Emerson College | Visual and Media Arts Dept | AD Webinar | Panelist | Expanding Your Audience: Adding Accessibility Features to Your Film | November 1, 2021 | 4:00pm Pacific
NYU Tisch School of the Arts | Film School Faculty |
Audio Description Presentation | October 19, 2021
Diamond | Media Accessibility Panel | Panelist |
September 21, 2021 | 10:30am PST | 1:30pm EST
KQED | PBS | Audio Description Staff Presentation
| Audio Described Programming | August 30, 2021
RespectAbility | Instructor | Audio Description Lab for
Entertainment Professionals with Disabilities
Los Angeles | Virtual | August 3, 2021 2:00pm PST
Respectability 2021 summer lab
SOVAS | The State of VO | Panelist | Virtual | July 8, 2021 | 7pm ET | 4pm PT
Gotham Summer Career Development Program | Lunch & Learn Hour | Post Production Opportunities Week | The Gotham Film and Media Institute | Guest Speaker | July 7, 2021 11:00am PST
Gotham Progam | Schedule
Lighthouse of Collier | Summer Program | Presenter Audio Description Presentation | June 28, 2021
Digital LA - Accessibility Tech | Diamond Captions, Overlays, Audio Description | Panelist
Virtual | May 18, 2021
NYWIFT | ReelAbilities Film Festival | Panelist Virtual | April 2021
DOC NYC PRO | Winter 2021 Season
 The Future of Doc Accessibility: Best Practices for Film Exhibition, Education and Beyond | Panelist
Virtual | February 2021
Sundance Film Festival 2021 | RespectAbilityÂ
"Bridging the Gap" - Media Accessibility & Audio Description
Panel Coordinator & Moderator
Virtual | January 2021
Sundance Film Festival 2021 | Virtual
Sundance FF
LCA Hollywood/National Career Exploration Summit in Collaboration with ReelAbilities Film Festival | Audio Description PresenterÂ
Los Angeles | Virtual | October 2020/National Career Exploration Summit in Collaboration with ReelAbilities Film Festival | Audio Description Presenter
California Polytechnic State University | Guest Lecturer
Accessibility | Photographic Expression | Art 324
San Luis Obispo | Virtual | October 6, 2020
Getting Real '20 Conference | International Documentary Association | Panelist Expanding Expression: Audio Descriptions
and Captioning in Film
 Los Angeles | Virtual | Sept 29, 2020Expanding Expression: Audio Descriptions
Respectability | Media Accessibility Panelist
Disabilities On Screen and Off | Panel Discussion
Los Angeles | March 10, 2020
DRA -SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Disability Rights Advocates Gala
Presenter of the Accessible Fundraising Video
American Museum of Natural History
New York CIty | October 21 2019
"Pavarotti"
Audio Description | Q&A | Screenings at Rialto Cinemas:
Elmwood CA | June 23 2019 | 2:00pm
Sebastopol CA | June 30 2019 | 2:20pm
Pavarotti - Rialto
ReespectAbility 2020 Summer Lab
RespectAbility Summer Lab
RespectAbility | PresenterÂ
Audio Description Lab for
Entertainment Professionals with Disabilities
Wallis Annenberg Theater |Â Los Angeles |Â June 18, 2019
AD Lab Program for Entertainment Professionals | Los Angeles
New York Women In Film & Television
VOG Gala Announcer | Annual Muse AwardsÂ
Hilton | New York | December 2018 & 2019
NYWIFT Muse Awards | New York
Netflix Respectability - Previous Engagements
Netflix | RespectAbility Inclusion Presentation
Video Description Guest Speaker
Hollywood | Los Angeles | November 14 2018 RespectAbility Inclusion Presentation
Women In Film LA
Film Accessibility Panel | Moderator & Panelist
West Hollywood Library | Los Angeles | October 22 2018
Women In Film | Los Angeles
Pub Speak BB of ALA
"How Sweet the Sound - The Blind Boys of Alabama"Â
Open Audio Described Film Screening Presenter |Â Q&A Panelist
Pico Union | Los Angeles | October 12Â 2018
Dealt - Speaker & Presenter
Apple Adaptive Technology
Magic Presentation | Film Accessibility Q&A Guest Speaker
Apple Spaceship Campus | October 7 2018
New York Film Festival | New York Women in Film & Television
Film Accessibility Panel | Moderator & Panelist
Bunin Munroe Film Center | Manhattan | October 13 2017
"Dealt" | Mill Valley Film Festival
Q&A Film Accessibility Panelist | Film Screening
Century Cinema | Corte Madera | October 8 2017
Film Panel Q&A; Luke Korem, Director/Producer, Richard Turner, Film Subject
Michele Spitz, Audio Description Producer/Narrrator
New York Women in Film & Television | ReelAbilities NY
Film Accessibility Panel | Moderator & Panelist
JCC Manhattan | New York | February 9 2016
Emcee - Fundraising Event 2013
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