Speaking Engagements
To schedule a speaking engagement and/or to discuss workshop and speaking fees, please email us at mel [at] theartofchangeagency [dot] net.
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Recent and Relevant:
Mel Michelle Lewis
“Climate Creatives,” DC Climate Week Opening Ceremonies, Washington, DC, April 20, 2026.
“Opening/ Closing Ceremony for Capacity Builders,” Environmental Capacity Builders Network Convening, Pendle Hill, PA, April 2, 2026.
“Movement Building for Environmental Leaders,” Planet Women, March 5, 2026.
"Broadening Participation in Outdoor Recreation Activities," New Horizons in Conservation Convening, Yale School of the Environment, May 9, 2025.
“Queering Landscapes,” Rising Urbanists Conference, CCNY CUNY Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, April 26, 2025.
“Policing Black Bodies: Queer Studies, Public Policy, and the Law,” Black Queer Studies Conference, UNC Chapel Hill, April 5, 2025.
“Ethical Storytelling Salon,” American Bird Conservancy and Planet Forward, February 7, 2025.
“DEIJ Panel,” Restore America's Estuaries, Coastal & Estuarine Summit, October 7, 2024.
“Water Access Gap Regional Breakout Sessions,” Water Access and Sanitation Sector (WASH) Convening, May 7-9, 2024.
All Staff Retreat (DEIJ), Water Foundation, February 27, 2024.
“NGO Greetings and Poetry Reading: Unity Bayou,” Nez Perce Tribe presents “Rise Up Northwest” in Unity Convening for Salmon and Orca, November 1-2, 2023.
"Queer Ecologies Panel," Forest Stewards Guild, February 1, 2023.
“DEIJ Leadership and Green Groups,” Green 2.0, June 30, 2022.
“Iteration and Imagination: Hopeful Strategies for the Anthropocene,” Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS), June 22, 2022.
Adela C. Licona
Urban Bird Project, UT San Antonio, Relational Rootings (Collaborative Keynote) + Living to Tell: Radical Futuring (Collaborative Workshop), March 2024
Archiving Bodies: Digital Archives, Feminist and Queer Praxis, Maynooth University, Ireland, May 2022
Storytelling Across Border, NMSU, February 2022
Thoughts on Tap, UNR, January 2022
Y/our Words Matter: Zines in the Classroom, October 2021
Write to Thrive: a Model for Supporting Latinx Graduate Student Writing at UCSC with Betania Santos & Nana Osei-Kofi, July 2021
Art as Coalitional Gesture and Information as Moving Matter, University of Arizona’s Women’s+ Hackathon, March 2021
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