CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2025 “The 21 Sems ‘dzin Meditations,” Generative Contemplation Initiative Workshop, University of Virginia, Santa Cruz, California, June 6-10th, 2025.
2025 Panelist, Longchenpa Contemplative Curriculum Summit, University of Virginia, San Francisco, California, June 10th-13th 2025.
2024 “What Can Buddhist Studies Offer Survivors?” Heartwood/Northwestern Symposium on Sexual Violence in Buddhism: Centering Survivor Voices, Northwestern University Oct 25, 2024.
2024 “Liberation in a Female Body,” Dzogchen and Tibetan Modernity Conference, Rice University, April 26-27, 2024.
2024 “Bodies full of Bodies, Revisiting the Yab Yum deities in Tibetan literature,” Buddhism and the Body in Tibet, University of Toronto’s Department for the Study of Religion and Ho Centre for Buddhist Studies, April 19, 2024.
2024 “The Sems ‘dzin of Sound,” Generative Contemplation Initiative Workshop, University of Virginia. March 20-April 2nd, 2024.
2024 “Listening to Women Missing From Texts,” Survivor CenteredApproaches to Religious Studies Research, University of California at Riverside, March 21-24, 2024.
2024 “One Desires You, One Cries A Lot, Portrayals of Female Consort Sexuality in Tibetan Buddhism.” Sexuality and the Archive Conference, University of California at Riverside, March 1-3, 2024.
2023 “Bodies Full of Bodies: Ḍākki Yab Yum in Great Perfection Meditation,” in Between Human and Non-human Natures: Transcorporeality in Tibetan Buddhism, Sponsored by the Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Unit, Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, San Antonio, Texas, Nov 18-21, 2023.
2023 “Epistemologies of Perfection,” From Knowledge and Liberation to Unbounded Wholeness through The Great Bliss Queen: In Honor of Anne C. Klein ” Co-sponsored by Tibetan and Himalayan Religions and Contemplative Studies Units, Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, San Antonio, Texas, Nov 18-21, 2023. 
2022 “Legacies of Violence: Trauma, Buddhism, and our Collective Bodies.” Buddhism Unit and Buddhist Philosophy Unit, Annual Meetingof the American Academy of Religion, Denver, Colorado, November 19-22, 2022.
2022 “Non-Dual Union in Tibetan Great Perfection,” Dharma Academy
of North America, Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, Denver, Colorado, November 19-22, 2022.
2022 “Anatomy of a Ḍākinī; Female Consorts in Seminal Heart Literature.” Sixth International Seminar of Young Tibetologists, University of Virginia from August 9th – 13th, 2021.
2022 “Female Figurations in Tibet’s early Great Perfection (rdzogs chen),” XIXth Congress of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, August 2021.
2021 “How Buddhists Redefined Norms for Sexual Ethics; Lessons from Discursive Practices in 14th Century Tibetan Consort Literature.” Institute of Buddhist Studies Graduate Student Symposium.
2021 “Mind, Body & Sex in Tibetan Dzogchen, The Seminal Heart of theḌākinī on female Mind-Body Metaphysics,” Mind-body Philosophy in Buddhism Panel, 2021 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 20, 2021.
2021 “Challenging Privilege in Buddhist Institutions and in Buddhist Studies,” Buddhist Critical-Constructive Reflection Unit and Buddhism Unit. 2021 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November 20-23, 2021.
2021 “Sexual Ethics in Tibetan Buddhism.” Building Resilience and Inspiring Courage. 2021 Conference of Ford Fellows, Oct 7-9, 2021.
2020 “Female Bodies in Tibetan Literature,” Reclaiming Knowledge for an Equitable Future; Philosophy and Religion Exchange Session. 2020 Conference of Ford Fellows, October 9-10, 2020.
2020 “Contemplation in A Context; An Analysis of a Fourteenth Century Tibetan Contemplative Training Manual.” Mind & Life Contemplative Research Conference; State of the Field, Discoveries, Opportunities and Challenges.” Nov 5-8, 2020.
2019 “Ḍākinī in the Seminal Heart Narratives.” Society for Tantric Studies Conference Program. Northern Arizona University, Sept 27-29, 2019.
2019 “Women in The Seminal Heart of the Ḍākinī.” 16th Sakyadhita International Conference on Buddhist Women, June 23-28, 2019.
2018 “A Sad Little Song, From stak sham rdo rjes Secret Liberation Story.” Lotsawa Translation Workshop, University of Colorado, Boulder. October 5-8, 2018.
2017 “Becoming Vajrayogini: Buddhist Identity and Self Esteem without Self in Buddhist Narratives.” Sakyadhita International Conference on Buddhist Women. June 22-28, 2017.
2015 “Bridging the Lay-Monastic Divide: Women’s Religious Leadership in Tibet,” Sakyadhita International Conference on Buddhist Women, Compassion and Social Justice. Jun 23-30, 2015.
2015 “Women in Tibetan Religious Memory,” Southeast Conference Association for Asian Studies 54th Annual Meeting, Jan 16-18, 2015.
2014 “Re-envisioning Trauma,” University of Virginia Buddhist Meditation: History, Culture, Development, Science Conference. Feb 28 – Mar 2, 2014.
SELECT INVITED LECTURES
2025 “Leadership and Pedagogy Innovation in Bhutanese Monasteries,” Khedrup Foundation Bhutan Monastic Body, 2025.
“Porous Bodies in Tibetan Buddhism,” University of California Riverside Department for the Study of Religion and Asian Studies Program, May 21, 2025.
2022 “A Buddhist Approach to Ending Rape Culture; Beyond Neo-colonialist Critiques of Gender Violence in Tibetan Communities.” Reed Religion Symposium, Spring 2022, Reed College.
2022 “Emerging Trends in the Study of Asian Religions,” Department of Religious Studies at Trinity College Limpitlaw Speaker Series.
2022 “Yab Yum Symbolism, Heteronormativity, and Translating Sexual Yoga,” Lotsawa Translation Workshop, Oct 13-16, 2022, Northwestern University.
2021 “Comparative Buddhist Sexual Ethics Part IV; Abuse, Sex, and the Sangha with Sarah Jacoby, James Robson, Kali Cape, Sharon Suh, Jue Liang, Amy Langenberg and Lama Willa Moderator.” Abuse, Sex and the Sangha, Conversations for Healing. Religion and Sex Abuse Project. Organized by Professors Ann Gleig and Amy Langenberg, Sept 19, 2021.
2021 “Scholar Practitioners in Buddhism and Buddhist Studies.” Department of Global Humanities and Religions, Western Washington University.
2021 “Women in Buddhism,” Sponsored by Natural Dharma Fellowship.
2021 “Building Empathy Skills, EQ in Work, Relationships & Life,” Hiram College, February 1, 2021.
2015 “Tibetan Yogis in Tibet, Nepal and North America,” James Madison University.