SELECTED PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 
  • Cultural Currents: Education and Society in the Indo-Pacific Region. CAORC-AIFIS 2025 Overseas Faculty Development Seminar in Indonesia. Council of American Overseas Research Centers. - June 2026
  • Grading Conference. Virtual. - June 2025 
  • FATE Conference, Foundations of Art Theory and Education. Washington DC –      April 2025
  • LAND Conference, Liberal Arts Network for Development, Henry Ford College,  Dearborn MI – February 2025 
  • ABLE Conversation Symposium. Virtual. Berklee Institute for Accessible Arts  Education. - November 2024
  • Neurodiversity in the Arts Symposium. Virtual. Research Institute, University of the Arts. Helsinki, Finland. - November 2024
  • Art For Other Worlds. Online Course taught by Mitch Speed. Berlin Art Institute. –  August 2024
  • 10th Annual Digital Pedagogy Institute Conference. Digital Pedagogy Institute, University of Waterloo. Virtual.-- August 2024
  • How to decolonize your artistic practice with care and solidarity, Online Course taught by Kathy- Ann Tan. Berlin Art Institute. – June 2024 
  • Grading Conference. Virtual. - June 2024
  • South Africa Study Abroad Exploratory Trip. (Durban, Johannesburg, Cape Town)   
    Collaboration with Durban University of Technology. - June 2024
  • AAC&U Conference on Diversity, Equity, and Student Success. Philadelphia, PA –March 2024
  • LAND Conference, Liberal Arts Network for Development, Virtual. – February 2024 
  • Grading Conference. Virtual. - June 2023
  • Education Summit. Course Hero. Virtual. - June 2023
  • FATE Conference, Foundations of Art Theory and Education. Denver, Co – April 2023 
  • LAND Conference, Liberal Arts Network for Development, Virtual. – February 2023
  • Participatory Activist Research: Reflexivity, Transparency & Accountability. Practice As Research Network. – June 2022
  • De-/Anti-/Post-colonial Feminisms in Fine Art and Textile Craft. Create/Feminisms, Middlesex University. - June 2022
  • DEI Micro-Credential, Mott Community College - May 2022
  • Building Community: A Conversation on Engaged Art History. California University of Pennsylvania. California, PA – April 2022
  • Transformative Portraiture: Visualizing Pain, Death, and the Afterlife, Virgil Wong, Morbid Anatomy -  January 2022
  • The Academy of the Wooden Puppet, Bernd Ogrodnik, The Puppet Loft at National Theater of Iceland - September 2021-August 2022
  • Grading Conference. Virtual. - June 2022
  • LAND Conference, Liberal Arts Network for Development, Virtual. – February 2022
  • 100 Drawings: Creating Under Pressure, Fred Liang, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, Virtual – August 2021
  • Cold Glass Working, Flint Institute of Art, Flint Michigan - July 2021
  • Introduction to Puppet Making Mastery, Bernd Ogrodnik, The Puppet Loft at National Theater of Iceland - July 2021
  • CraftWays 2021: Tending to Craft, Center for Craft, Asheville, NC, Virtual - July 2021
  • REMOTE: The Connected Faculty Summit, Arizona State University, Virtual – June   2021
  • Virtual Exchange Training Program, UniCollaboration - May 2021
  • FATE Conference, Foundations of Art Theory and Education, Virtual – April 2021
  • Art School Pedagogy 2.0. Teachers College, Columbia University and Maryland   Institute College of Art – March 2021
  • LAND Conference, Liberal Arts Network for Development, Virtual. – February 2021
  • NOSSMi Conference, National Organization for Student Success, MI – October 2020
  • New Media Caucus Border Control Symposium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI – October 2019
  • LAND Conference, Liberal Arts Network for Development, Ann Arbor MI. – February   2020
  • FATE Conference, Foundations of Art Theory and Education, Columbus OH -- April   2019
  • LAND Conference, Liberal Arts Network for Development, Ann Arbor MI. – February 2019
  • Fine Arts Work Center Summer Workshop: Sea Level Rise: An Installation Workshop   on Climate Change by Lauren Ewing, Provincetown, MA - July 2018
  • LAND Conference, Liberal Arts Network for Development, Muskegon MI. – February 2018
  • Midwest Institute for International & Intercultural Education Conference, The Ohio  State - AGI, Wooster, OH – April 2016
  • LAND Conference, Liberal Arts Network for Development, Muskegon MI. – February 2017 Mott Curriculum Design Workshop, Mott Community College, Flint MI – November 2016
  • Lily Conference, Traverse City MI - October 2016
  • Midwest Institute for International & Intercultural Education Conference, Schoolcraft College, MI– April 2016
  • National Women's Studies Association Conference, Milwaukee, WI – November 2015
  • Global Stewardship, Norms, and Values Conference/Workshop, Midwest Institute for International/ Intercultural Education, Curriculum Development Workshop – August  2015
  • Midwest Institute for International & Intercultural Education 22nd Annual Conference, Ivy Tech Community College – April 2015
  • ETOM Technology Conference, St. Clair County Community College – November 2014
  • Team Based Learning, FCTE- PD Seminar, Delta College – September 2014
  • Equality Leadership Colloquium: Issues in Higher Education, Center for the Study of Equality and Human Rights, Eastern Michigan University – April 2014
  • Midwest Institute for International & Intercultural Education 21st Annual  Conference, Columbus State Community College – April 2014
  • National Women's Studies Association 2013 Conference, Cincinnati, OH. – November 2013
  • Gen Ed Mini-Conference - Promise & Paradox: Conversations about Thinking, Global Awareness & Citizenship in Digital Age, Mott Community College–November 2013
  • Safe Space Training, Delta College – October 2013
  • Human Rights and Cultural Diversity Conference/Workshop, Midwest Institute for  International/ Intercultural Education, Curriculum Development Workshop – August   2013
  • OEL Course Redesign Project Workshop, University of Michigan – Flint, Fall 2012
  • ETOM Technology Conference, Web 2.0 Technologies, Northwood University –  November 2012 
  • Theory and Methods of Reading Across Disciplines, Faculty Development EDU Course, Delta College – Spring 2012
  • The Five Pillars of Islam, an Introduction to the Essential Teachings of Islam and a Cultural Exploration, Creative 360, Enrichment Humanities Class – Spring 2012
  • Online Teaching Course: CTL 202, Managing Your Campus Web Course, Union  Institute & University – February 2012
  • Online Teaching Course, CTL 102c, PD Certificate, Union Institute & University –December 2011
  • Advanced Internet Teaching Techniques for Teachers, Delta College -- May 2009
  • ETOM Technology Conference, Web 2.0 technologies, Lawrence Technology  University –September 2008
  • Boro Flame-worked glass (Glass Sculpture), Delphi Glass -- February 2008
  • Techniques for Critical thinking in students (seminar), Delta College -- January 2008 Classroom Management (seminar), Delta College -- January 2008
  • Kiln Formed Glass, Delphi Glass – November 2007
  • Interdisciplinary Teaching, Faculty Development Course, University of Michigan–Flint –August 2007
  • Internet Teaching Techniques for Teachers, Delta College -- May 2006
  • Intensive Course Development, Faculty Development Course, University of Michigan– Flint– August 2005  
  • Faculty Introduction to Online Teaching, Faculty Dev. Course, University of Michigan– Flint –August 2000