NATIONAL/REGIONAL MEETINGS:

• Increasing transparency on postdoctoral salaries and numbers – speaker, Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, October 2019 
• Training the biomedical workforce for long-term career success – speaker, ACS Chemical Information Division (CINF) Symposium on ‘Importance of Collaboration to Create Student Success in the Laboratory & Beyond,’ ACS National Meeting, San Diego, CA, August 2019 
• Careers in science policy and advocacy: resources and opportunities – speaker, workshop on ‘Communicating Science to Policymakers,’ The New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY, May 2019 (workshop link)
• How to think about your career in policy and advocacy – speaker, workshop on ‘Communicating Science to Policymakers,’ The New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY, May 2019 (workshop link)
• Bolster Your S&T Policy Credentials with JSPG – speaker, STGlobal conference, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Washington, DC, March 2019 (meeting link)**
• Shining a light on academia for ECRs – speaker, Biomedical Transparency Summit, Bethesda, MD, February 2019 (slides)
• Opportunities for Advocacy through Nonprofit Work – invited speaker, AAAS Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering (CASE) workshop, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, October 2018 (workshop link)
• Collins T, Bankston A, Nguyen T, Sinche M. – invited presenters (via Stride), Collaborating to enhance career tracking and taxonomy efforts across disciplines, Consortium of Canadian Graduate Student Professional Development Administrators (CCGSPDA) conference call, June 2018 (collaborative presentation)*
• What Multiple Workshops Revealed About Career Development Needs of Junior Scientists – GCC Southwestern Regional Meeting, San Diego, CA, January 2018 (included in the category on “Innovations in graduate student and/or postdoctoral training”)

UNIVERSITY EVENTS:

• From the bench to science policy: leveraging your skills and background – invited speaker, Rush University Graduate College Career Development Series, Rush University, Chicago, IL, June 2019 (recording)
  
• Empowering early career researchers to advocate for change – speaker (‘research rave’), 6th Annual UCSD Postdoctoral Research Symposium, UC San Diego, San Diego, CA, November 2018 (website link)
• Navigating a changing research enterprise – invited speaker, Science Policy Group at UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, October 2018
• Building a sustainable scientific enterprise for the next generation – invited speaker, Biological Sciences Department seminar, College of Arts & Sciences, Ohio University, Athens, OH, October 2018 (website link)
• Components of a Successful Postdoc – invited speaker, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, September 2018 (NPAW 2018)
• Committing to a path in science policy – invited presenter (via zoom), Professional Skills and Ethics (BIOL 863), Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, April 2018 (video)
• Resources for empowering international researchers in the U.S. – invited speaker, Science Policy Group at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, March 2018
• Making postdocs ‘less invisible’ in academia – invited speaker, Molecular Biology Department seminar, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, March 2018

*With Lorna MacEachern (IDP Project Officer, McGill University Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies) and Jonathan Turner (Career Educator at University of Toronto & Chair of CCGSPDA)

**Short pitch (no slides)