In collaboration with Getty Villa curators and chefs I created a menu of funerary and death ritual foods, accompanied by detailed description cards outlining the history of each food and selected ingredients.

This month long course examined how historically marginalized communities experience death and dying through the lens of horror films and media.

Presentation I created in collaboration with Now Age Travel for Haus Witch on the feminist and death positive history of Halloween, followed by an interactive walking experience through Salem, MA led by Now Age Travel.

In this popular talk for the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, I discuss how modern Día de Muertos traditions are connected to a rich legacy of resistance which help to define identity, cultivate community, and help to decolonize the borders created by colonization, between the living and the dead.

For several years I curated a pop-up exhibit using artifacts from my private collection and gave talks on death and mourning in the Victorian era for Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum in El Campo Santo.

An illustrated lecture on the many ways people around the world have used food to honor and communicate with their dead.

A talk on Guatemalan film La Llorona, which uses traditional folklore to address real events of the genocide of Indigenous people and Colonialism over the past few decades. I discuss the indigenous roots of the spirit’s archetype, her part in modern Latina identity, and how traditional Latino ghost stories illustrate that most of these stories are warnings about colonization and white supremacy.