Presentations + Panels

”Queer-Feminist Urban Perspectives: Claiming Spaces,” Urbane Praxis / Berlin (2025)

“Making Space(s) for Club Culture – What's Left, What do We Long For?” & “Indexing the Social, Cultural and Economic Value of Nightlife in Our Cities” / Vienna After Dark (2024)

“Queer Space Project” MIL Lisboa (2024)

“Co-Creating Neighbourhoods for All - Peer-to-Peer Learning on Safer Cities and Urban Security” UN-Habitat World Urban Forum (WUF) 12 (2024)

“Creando la ciudad nocturna: Lecciones de Berlin y más allá” / Panama Crossroads (2024)

“Numbers, Please!: Night Economy Studies and Numbers” & “Awareness in Club Culture – A Model for Safer Nights in Cities” / Stadt Nach Acht (2023)

“Why Measure The Impact Of The Night As Cultural Heritage, And How Can We Do It?” & “Creating Your Own Space: Who’s Fighting For The Right To The City?” / MIL Lisboa (2023)

"Creative Footprint Montreal" / Montréal Night Summit (2023)

“Safer work environments: practical perspectives” / NTIA Nighttime Economy Summit (2023)

“The A-Team: Awareness Teams in Berlin Club Culture as Self-Governance Practice for ‘Safe(r) Space’” / Franco-German Conference on Night Studies, Université de Paris/Laboratoire ICT, IUT de Paris, EHESS/Laboratoire CESSP, DAAD, Gaîté Lyrique (2022)

“The Role of Cultural Policies In The Cities’ Transition” & “Safety, not Surveillance: Towards More Inclusive and Safer Nights” / MIL Lisboa (2022)

“Good Nights: Rethinking Urban Safety, Wellbeing, and Community through Culture After Dark,” UN-Habitat World Urban Forum (WUF) 11 (2022)

“The A-Team: Awareness Teams in Berlin Club Culture as Self-Governance Practice for ‘Safe(r) Space’” / Night Spaces: Migration Culture and Integration in Europe (NITE) 3rd International Conference, Leiden University (2022)

“Good Nights: Re-Imagining Urban Safety, Sustainability and Community After Dark” / Stadt Nach Acht (2021)

"Art in Times of Corona," Alexander von Humboldt Foundation virtual study tour (2021)

“Rethinking – Changing Roles of Music in Media and Civil Society,” AmplifyMusic (2021)

"How to Combine Green & Financial Sustainability" / Museums Facing Extinction/We Are Museums (2021)

“The Future of Dancefloors” / EXPOBAR, Asobares (2020)

“Amplification of Imagination,” UNESCO High-Level Futures Literacy Summit (2020)

“Strategies for Restarting Nightlife” / 7th International Nightlife Congress, International Nightlife Association (2020)

“Clubsterben: Threats to Berlin’s Club Culture and Responses from Nighttime Governance” / 1st International Conference of Night Studies (ICNS.LX), Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology - University Institute of Lisbon (CIES-IUL) (2020)

“(Re-)Building cooperation and communities in the times of post-Corona,” Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Annual Meeting (2020)

“Future of the nighttime economy: impacts of COVID-19” / Nighttime in Cities, Fraunhofer Institute

“Nightlife: Practical Actions and Challenges” & “How Data is Collectable/Collected Toward Local Action and Recovery” / Amplify Music (2020)

“Safer Cities at Night: Collaboration, Festivalization, and Lessons from Nightlife Culture,” UN-Habitat World Urban Forum (WUF) 10 (2020)

“Sustainable Clubbing: Nightlife, the UN SDGs, and Visions of 2030” / CTM/transmediale Festival (2020)

“Nightlife For The Next Decade: Night Culture, Wellbeing, And Sustainable Cities” / Stadt Nach Acht (2019)

Teaching

Invited lectures:

University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design / Course: The City at Night / “Queer Space? Safer Space? Third Place? Community and Culture at Night” (2025)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Course: The City at Night / “Studying nightlife: a practitioner perspective” (2023)

University of the Arts Berlin / Course: Rave and resistance: Politicizing the dancefloor / “The A-Team: Awareness Teams in Berlin Club Culture as Self-Governance Practice for ‘Safe(r) Space’” (2023)

Willem de Kooning Academy at Rotterdam Univ. of Applied Sciences / Program: Leisure & Events Management (2022) / “Nightlife Research & The Creative Footprint”

University of Denver, College of Arts & Media / Course: Music Cities (2021, 2022)

ArtCenter Berlin / Course: ‘Reading’ Berlin Soundscapes / “Preserving & promoting sonic space in a changing city” (2022)

Coro Southern California Fellowship in Public Affairs / “Nighttime Governance: Responses to COVID-19” (2020)

Workshop facilitation:

“The SDGs at night: What does ‘sustainable’ look like in nightlife?” / Montréal Night Summit (2022)

“Using SDGs at Night” / Stadt Nach Acht (2021)

“Reading & Writing Reality: Practical Dramaturgy” / University of the Underground (2020)

Workshop facilitator, public speaking, leadership skills and systems thinking / University of California Los Angeles with Coro Southern California (2018-19)

Workshop facilitator, public speaking, leadership skills and systems thinking / Harvard-Westlake School with Coro Southern California (2018-19)

Arts + experiential education:

Workshop designer & facilitator (Gr. 9-12), “Police Accountability and Civic Arts Practice” / Jewish Council on Urban Affairs/ONE Northside (2017)

Educator, environmental & food justice (Gr. K-12) / Common Vision (2015-17)

Teaching artist (Gr. 9), theater performance and design / American Theater Company/Chicago Public Schools (2013)

Teaching artist, creative drama and creative writing / 826CHI/Northwestern University (2012)