Public Speaking Highlights

2026

SXSW - Moderator - Low-Key Legends: Personal Branding for Introverts

SXSW - Panelist - Going Off Script: Filmmaking Through an Indigenous Lens

Dropout - Presenter - Smartypants Season 3

USC - Panelist - Roll for Tricksters: A Powwow Heist featuring Brennan Lee Mulligan

deadCenter Film Festival - Panelist - Contemporary Indigeneity in Series & Episodics

Council On Foundations - Speaker - Building Together Conference

StoryConnect - Fireside Chat - In Conversation with kids television writer Joey Clift about crafting stories everyone can relate to!

Washington State University’s Edward R. Murrow Symposium - Panelist - Communicating for Change: Working with & For Underrepresented Communities

Washington State University’s Edward R. Murrow Symposium - Panelist - LA Stories

Kidscreen Summit - Panelist - Snackable Stories: Cracking the code on micro-content for kids

Quinault Indian Tribe - Keynote Speaker - Mental Health Awareness Dinner

2025

SXSW - Moderator - Decolonizing Social Media: Combating Native Erasure Through Shitposting

FAN EXPO San Francisco - Panelist - Bootleg Safari

Pocahontas Reframed Film Festival - Keynote Speaker

City of Los Angeles - Keynote Speaker - Native American Heritage Month Filmmaker Celebration

Potlatch Fund - Speaker - Potlatch Makes Possible: Together We Rise and Thrive

NDN Collective - Speaker - Indigenous People’s Day Celebration

UNLV - Speaker - Remaining Native and Pow Screening + Talkback

Nativisions Film Festival - Keynote Speaker

PFCAT - Panelist - Breaking Boundaries with Innovative Distribution Strategies

San Diego Comiccon - Panelist - Pow! Screening & Panel

The Chapter House - Moderator - Native American Animation Emmy Nominees Celebration

Mark Taper Forum - Moderator - Fake It Til You Make It Post Show Panel

2024

Dropout - Panelist - Um, Actually Season 10

NAACP, Goldhouse & Harness - Speaker - Academy Awards Unity Watch Party

Dickinson College - Keynote Speaker - Jim Thorpe Center for the Futures of Native Peoples

AGBO - Host - Dope Natives Storytelling Show

The Heard Museum - Panelist - Native American Filmmaker Celebration

Mark Taper Forum - Speaker - Native American Heritage Month Celebration

The Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians - Host - Culture Night

2023

Activision Blizzard - Keynote Speaker - Native American Heritage Month Celebration

Native Youth Summit - Panelist - Indigenous Storytelling + Native Representation

Seattle Rep - Fireside Chat - Joey Clift in Conversation with comedian Howie Echo-Hawk

Livewire Radio - Panelist - Live NPR Show Taping at the Alberta Rose Theater

Native American Media Alliance - Speaker - Native American Animation Lab

Nantucket Film Festival - Moderator - Hail To The Breadsticks Panel

Idyllwild Arts! Native American Arts Center - Keynote Speaker - Native American Arts Workshops

Chromatic Black - Speaker - Building an Ecosystem for Narrative Change

Washington State University’s Edward R. Murrow Symposium - Panelist - Breaking Boundaries

2022

The Smithsonian National Museum Of The American Indian - Panelist - Native Cinema Showcase

Nerdist & FX on Hulu - Host - The Impact of Reservation Dogs

Milken Institute Global Conference - Panelist - Redefining, Renewing, Remembering: The New Indigenous Narrative

Spark Animation Conference - Fireside Chat - A Celebration of Spirit Rangers

Native American Youth and Family Center - Keynote Speaker

Yes And Laugher Lab - Speaker - What’s Keeping Me Up At Night

2021

Netflix - Panelist - Indigenous Voices in the Writers Room

Story Movements - Speaker

Yes And Laughter Lab - Keynote Speaker

55 Year Mission - Panelist - Quoting Gene Roddenberry

Cordillera International Film Festival - Panelist - The Eighth Generation: The Indigenous Rise in Hollywood

Non-Obvious Beyond Diversity Summit - Panelist - How Comedians of Color Navigate Sensitive Topics

2020

Sundance Film Festival - Panelist - An Indigenous Lens on the Story

BRIC Talent + Innovation Summit - Panelist - Breaking the Story

AT&T - Panelist - Tribal Talk: Native Americans in Entertainment

Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Panelist - Wampum.Codes

Frank Gathering - Panelist - Why & How to Use (+ Create!) Comedy in Social Change Campaigns