Paper Panel, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication —“The Servant Mammy: Reading Lovecraft Country’s Hippolyta Freeman Circumvents Through Servant Leadership Approach.”  (FALL 2025)

 

Poster Presentation, Morgan State Spring Into Research Week —“Using Situational Crisis Communication Theory To Respond To Active Shootings On HBCU Campuses.” (SPRING 2025)

 

Poster Presentation, DC Health Communication Conference —“The Acculturation and Mental Health Status of Asian Immigrants in the Washington Metropolitan Area.” (SPRING 2025)

 

Individual Paper, Maryland Communication Association—“The Building is Closed but the Ministry’s Open’: The Role of the Black Church Leaders in Vaccine Communication Through Black Podcast.” (SPRING 2025)

 

Panel Discussion, New York State Communication Association — Redefining Research Ethics in AI-driven Communication Landscape (FALL 2024)

 

Panel Paper, National Communication Association, Rhetorical and Comm Theory Division — “Using PEN-3 to Evaluate the Effectiveness of the CDC’s COVID-19 Vaccine Communication Toolkit for Community-Based Organizations on the Promotion of Clinical Trials for African Americans.” (FALL 2024)

 

Panel Discussion, Midwest Popular Culture Association — Teaching Ideas for Popular Culture Studies [T.I.P.S] (FALL 2024)

 

Panel Discussion, International Conference on Social Media & Society —“Visual Framing of Missing White Woman Syndrome: A Mixed Method Analysis of #LaurenCho, #DesheenaKyle, #MiyaMarcano, and #GabbyPetito.” (SUMMER 2024)

 

Panel Discussion, The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Sports Division — “A Framing Analysis of News Coverage about Brittney Griner During Her Russian Detention in Black and Mainstream Newspapers.” (FALL 2024)

 

Panel Discussion, The Broadcast Education Association — “Balancing the Narrative: Teaching tolerance in the times of Bias, Bigotry and Blackness in Cities like Baltimore and Beyond” (SPRING 2024)

 

Poster Presentation, The Kentucky Conference on Communication — “Using PEN-3 to Evaluate the Effectiveness of the CDC’s COVID-19 Vaccine Communication Toolkit for Community-Based Organizations.” (SPRING 2024)

 

Individual Paper, New York State Communication Association — “Who Holds the Power: A Textual Analysis on the Cancelation of YouTube Star David Dobrik and the Vlog Squad.” (Fall 2023)

 

Chair, New York State Communication Association — “Communication in the Digital World: Media Technology and Artificial Intelligence.” (FALL 2023)

 

Group Panel Paper, National Communication Association; Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Communication Studies Division — “Black, White and Queer: Reimagining Interracial Queer Dating through the Sibling Rivalry Podcast.” (Fall 2023)

 

Group Panel Paper, National Communication Association, African American Communication and Culture Division — “The Never-Ending Pandemic(s): A Narrative Analysis on Black Women Educators Dealing with COVID, Sexism and Racism.” (FALL 2023)

 

Chair, Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association — “Race, Ethnicity, Africa, and the Middle East.” (FALL 2023)

 

Individual Paper, Howard Research Symposium — “The New Mammy: Hippolyta Freeman and the Anti-Mammy Trope in Lovecraft Country.” (SPRING 2023)

 

Individual Paper, Central States Communication Association, Women’s Caucus—

“Seeing Red: A Phenomenological Analysis of Dorothy West's Russian Experience in 1932.” (SPRING 2023)

 

Individual Paper, Cultural Studies, Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Graduate Student Organization Student Symposium — “The Divides Meet: An Analysis of the Generational and Digital Divide and Its Implications on African Americans.” (SPRING 2022)

 

Group Panel Paper, Popular Culture Association, Black Popular Culture Division —“Oppositional Gazing Through Affective Disposition Theory: Decolonizing Affective Disposition Theory with Judas and the Black Messiah.” (SPRING 2022)

 

Group Panel Paper, Midwest Popular Culture Conference/American Culture, Fan Studies Division — “Black-Ish While Being Black: A Model for Understanding Black Television Fans.” (SPRING 2022)

 

Group Panel Paper, Eastern Communication Conference, Black Women Representation, Resistance and Resilience— “The New Black Woman: How the Black Women of Lovecraft Country Circumvent Stereotypes.” (SPRING 2022)

 

Individual Paper, New York State Communication Association, Special Topics Round-Up: COVID, Comics, Classroom Collaboration — “COVID And Cuomo: Using the CERC Model to Evaluate Strategic Uses of Twitter on Pandemic Communications.” (FALL 2022)

 

Individual Paper, The Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies; Women’s Cross-Border Experiences: Science, Literature, Race— “A Cultural Historical Analysis of Louise Thompson Patterson, Dorothy West and Constance White in 1932 Russia.” (FALL 2022)

 

Group Panel Paper, National Communication Association, African American Communication

and Culture Division— “African American Women’s Representations on Television.” (FALL 2022)

 

Group Panel Paper, National Communication Association, Gaming Division —

“You Dumb Cracker B*Tch:” The Legitimizing of White Supremacy During a Twitch Ban of ‘Hasanabi.’” (FALL 2022)

 

Group Panel Paper, Midwest Popular and American Popular Association—

“Abbott Elementary and Black Fandoms: Re-envisioning the Team Identification-Social Psychological Health Model to Understand Black Television Fans.” (FALL 2022)

 

Discussion Paper, National Communication Association, Russian Communication Division—

“The ‘Hitler-Ization’ of Putin: A Rhetorical Analysis of Vladimir Putin’s Speech Before the 2022 Ukraine Invasion.” (FALL 2022)

 

Discussion Paper, National Communication Association, Nonverbal Communication Division — “Vaccines and Black Students: Using Critical Media Literacy to Debunk COVID-19 Vaccine Apprehension.” (FALL 2022)

 

Chair, National Communication Association, Feminist and Gender Studies Division—

“Centering Black/African Feminist Thought.” (FALL 2022)

 

Individual Paper, Eastern Communication Association, Health Communications Division—
“Social Media and Health: Health Information Directed at African Americans about the COVID-19 Vaccine.” (SPRING 2021)

 

Group Panel Paper, Eastern Communication Conference, Instructional Communication Interest Group — “Activity-Based Learning And COVID-19: An Overview on How to Motivate Gen-Z.” (SPRING 2021)

 

Group Panel Paper, International Communication Association; Activism, Communication and Social Justice Division— “Protesting Police Killing: What Participants Experienced.” (SPRING 2021)

 

Individual Paper, National Communication Association, Women’s Caucus Division — “COVID-19 And Women: How ‘Black Women’s Health’ is Combatting Vaccine Apprehension.” (FALL 2021)

 

Individual Paper, Carolinas Communication Association Conference, Paths Toward Continuity & Change—"You Are Canceled: A Model For Understanding Cancel Culture Participation and its Ineffectiveness.” (FALL 2021)

 

Individual Paper, Midwest Popular Culture Conference,“Pop-pourri” Division— “Social Media And Power: A Case Study on the Cancelation Of YouTube Star David Dobrik.” (FALL 2021)

 

Individual Paper, National Communication Association, Russian Communication Division—
“The Better Alternative: Homer Smith vs. Chatwood Hall on Race And Russia.” (FALL 2021)

 

Individual Paper, National Communication Association, Applied Communications Division “COVID-19 Vaccine Communication Efforts Towards African Americans and Racial-Based Apprehension.” (FALL 2021)

 

Discussion Panel, National Communication Conference, Research in Progress— “Slacktivism And Groupthink.” (FALL 2021)

 

Individual Paper, National Communication Conference, Black Caucus “Myths About Black Immunity.” (FALL 2020)