RECENT INVITED PRESENTATIONS

2015

Engagement Australia, Sydney, Australia

The Action Lab (PDF)

Putting the Town in the Gown (PDF)

2014

International Society of City and Regional Planners, Gdynia, Poland

A Waterfront Vision (PDF)

Power Possibility Partnerships (PDF)

2013

Beyond Resilience: Actions for a Just Metropolis, New York

Urban Affairs Conference (PDF)

University of Utah Symposium (PDF)

Imagining America Conference, Syacuse University, New York

Art of Engaging (PDF)

2010

Toward a Just Metropolis, Invited Speaker, University of California,
      Berkeley

2008

Social Equity Conference (PDF)

2007

Invited Speaker. University as Civic Partner. Conference sponsored
      by the Lincoln Institute. (PDF)

Arizona State University: Faculty Colloquium (PDF)

Invited Speaker. National Academy of Public Administration
      "Conference. Social Change? Social Service? Social Equity?"

INVITED PRESENTATIONS, SPECIAL PROJECTS

2006

Women’s Leadership Conference, Arizona State University

2005

Invited Speaker and Trainer. Nevada County First 5 Commission

Invited Lecturer. Policy Issues in Higher Education. ASU

2004

Invited Speaker: Strategic Planning and Marketing for Nonprofit
      Organizations: Annual meeting of Washington State Childcare
      Resource & Referral Network

Special presentation sponsored by Nevada County, CA First Five.

2002

Keynote Speaker: Directors Institute/California Child Care Resource
      & Referral Network

2001

Speaker, Annual Symposium; National Association of Child Care
      & Resource Referral Agencies; Washington D.C.

Strategic Planning Training for MATRIX (a project of the San
      Francisco Foundation)

Convener and panelist; Directors Institute; Sacramento, CA;
      California Child Care Resource & Referral Network

2000 and 2001

Speaker at regional conferences across the country on perceptions of
      child care issues

2000

Aspen Institute review committee on issues confronting third sector

1999

Speaker/Annual Symposium; National Association of Child Care
      & Resource Referral Agencies; Washington D.C.

1998

“Innovative Approaches to Planning and Strategic Outreach:”
      Training for nonprofit organizations

Speaker/California Child Development Policy Advisory Committee:
      “Interpreting and Using Data to Make Change”

1997

Trainer/Maui Economic Development Board: “Marketing Economic
      Development”

Trainer/“Innovative Approaches to Planning for Nonprofit
      Managers”/for nonprofit organizations throughout Hawaii

Speaker/Child Development Policy Advisory Committee:
      “Data, Design, and Decisions”

Speaker/Peninsula Community Foundation, “Marketing Strategies
      for Nonprofits”

Speaker/American Public Health Association: “Public Benefits of
      Partnerships with Private Sector”

Speaker/Jobs for Justice: “Public/Private Partnerships to Benefit
      Communities”

1996

Speaker/California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Annual
      Conference: “Image and Identity issues related to Children’s
      Programs”

Speaker and Trainer/Rural Community Assistance Corporation,
      Meeting of the Western States: “Marketing and Outreach
      Strategies for Rural Organizations”

Speaker/California Public Health Association: “Community Health
      and Community Well Being”

Speaker/Association of Northern California Non Profit Housing
      Organizations: “Understanding Audiences; Creating Change”

Lecturer/California State University, Hayward; Nonprofit
      Marketing

Speaker and Resource Consultant/National School-to-Work
      Institute, Washington D.C.

1995

Speaker/San Francisco Task Force on Biotechnology

Speaker/Bay Area BioScience Center Conference on Community
      Impact of Biotechnology

Speaker/National Association of Child Care Resource & Referral
      Agencies (NACCRRA)/Western States Conference/“Reaching
      Parents Effectively”

Speaker/California Science Teachers Association, "Educators and
      Corporations — a Difficult Match"

Speaker/Math Education Reform Conference: “Being Strategic to
      Promote Reform”

Panelist/Northern California Grant Makers: “Advice to new
      Philanthropists”

Speaker/Southern California Association for Philanthropy/Jobs
      Conference (SCAP) “Training Programs that work for ‘at- risk’
      youth”

1991-7

Speaker/Annual California Child Care Resource & Referral
      Network Conference

Symposium/“Marketing and Outreach to Parents”

1994

Speaker/North American Conference on Adoptable Children
      (NACAC)

Speaker/Northern California Association of Human Resources.
      On the Occasion of the 40th Anniversary of Brown vs. Board of
      Education

1993-4

Speaker/Family Builders Network National Conference/“Effective
      Recruitment of Appropriate Families for Adoption of At-Risk
      Children”

1993

Speaker/UC Berkeley Planning Dept./“Making Public/Private
      Partnerships Work”

Conference Speaker/Trainer/National Adoption Exchange,
      Las Vegas, Nevada.

Conference Speaker/Massachusetts Institute of Technology/
      “The New American School”