“Exploring Cuban Music through Transnational Lens.” Presentation, Cuban Popular Music Class. Department of Performing Arts-Music. Christopher Newport University, Zoom, November, 2024.                    
 

“Filing Song Movement” Presentation, Vocal students’ class, Oakland School for the Arts (OSA), Oakland, CA, May, 2024.                    
 

“Cuban Music in Diaspora: Beyond Mainstream Markets and Cold War Narratives.” Panel, Cubahía Festival. La Peña Cultural Center, Berkeley, CA, March 2024.                    
 

“Female & Afro-Diasporic Resilience: Intersectional Crossroads in a Post-Colonial Context.” 2023 Island Feminism Speaker Series. YouTube. March 2023.
                                   
“Afro-Cuban Music as a Transnational Space across the Cuban Diaspora”. Panel, The Beat Goes On. Afro-Cuban Music & its Impact in the United States” Wolfsonian Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL, January 2023.                        
 

“Modern Narratives as Social Constructs” History Department, The Branson School, Ross, CA. Fall 2022.                        
 

“Cuba-The Unprecedented Protests from July 11, 2021”. History Department, The Branson School, Ross, CA. Spring 2022.                        
 

“Cultural Encounters.” Food Fusions & Cultural Appreciation vs. Appropriation (ESPM 198). UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA. Spring 2022                        
 

“The African Diaspora online in times of covid19 and racial civic unrest”. 4th International Biennial Caribbean Dance Conference. September 2020. https://lnkd.in/dAntGzU                        
 

“Afrolatin@s”. Master Class. Las Comadres Club. Zoom presentation, Miami, September 2020                    
 

“Transculturation and The Third In-Between Space: Thinking about Processes of Cultural Encounters and Identity Negotiations. Honors College, Florida International University, Miami, November 2019.                        
 

“Afrocubaness as a learning and multidimensional spiritual journey.” Ilé-Ifé 20th Dance Conference. Cubaness: Issues of Identity and Globalization. Miami Dade Public Library, Miami. August 2018.                    
 

“Dance and Music as pedagogical tools for teaching Spanish as a second language.” 3rd Biennial International Dance Conference. University of the West Indies, Barbados. May 23-26, 2018.                        
 

“Challenges to Scholars as Public Intellectuals. How to promote venues of cultural and civic dialogues in polarizing times.” Circuits of Knowledge Panel. Culture as Resource. International symposium honoring Dr. George Yúdice. University of Miami. April 7-8, 2017.                        
 

“Negotiations of a transnational Cuban music “nation” since the turn of the 21st century.” 11th CRI Conference on Cuban and Cuban American Studies. Florida International University. February 2017.                        
 

“The transnationalization of Cuban music production after the 1990’s crisis.” Panel on the Cultural Identities of Cuban-American Youth: Language, Literature, Music and the Arts. Cuban Research Institute. Florida International University. February 2016.
                       
"Reimagining Cubanidad: Transnational and Alternative Spaces in Cuban Cultural Production." Modern Language Association Annual Conference. Austin, Texas. January 2016.                    
 

“The Funk Connection in Popular Cuban Music.” Symposium on Cuban Alternative Music and its Diaspora. Hofstra University, New York. November 2015.                    
 

“The Transnationality of Afro Cuban Urban Music.” Roundtable on Contemporary Afrocuban- Jazz and Pop. Latin Jazz and Pop Festival. Brown University, Providence. October 2015.                    
 

“Transnational Cuban Music.” Seminar on Cuban culture to visiting Spanish minors from Denison University. University of Miami. October 2015.                    
 

“Decadencia y sobrevivencia: la nueva moral del sujeto "revolucionario" cubano en la narrativa de los noventa." Popular Cultural Association/American Cultural Association. New Orleans. April 2015.                    
 

“The Miami Urban Music Scene.” Lecture for undergraduate seminar, Musical Literature in the Caribbean. University of Miami. Fall 2014.                    
 

“Beyond the Hyphen: Transnational and Alternative Cubanidades.” Approaching a Post - Geographic Cuba. Princeton University. Princeton. N.J. April 2014.                    
 

“Reflections on Recent Transnational Cubans as Latin@s.” Imagining Latina/o Studies: Past, Present and Future. An International Latina/o Studies Conference. Chicago. July 2014.                    
 

“Cubanidad in Between: The Transnational Cuban Alternative Music Scene (TCAMS).” Ninth Cuban Research Institute (CRI) Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies. Florida International University. May 2013                        
 

“Constructing a Transnational Identity: The Cuban Music Diaspora since the 1990s.” Lecture for Dr. Christine B. Arce’s undergraduate seminar, Cultural Encounters: Latin American Cultures. University of Miami. Fall 2010.

                       
“Rumbeando Identity across the Cuban Diaspora.” XXII International Conference of the Latin American Studies Association. Toronto. October 2010                        
 

“The Cuban Musical Diaspora since the 1990s in Miami, New York and Madrid.” International Association for the Study of Popular Music. Loyola University. New Orleans. April 2010
               
“Constructing a Transnational Identity: The Cuban Musical Diaspora as a Case Study.” Eighth Cuban Research Institute (CRI) Conference on Cuban and Cuban-American Studies. Florida International University. February 2010