Upcoming Events
“Narcissus in Bloom: Hyper-Individualism and Identity Retreat"
Historical Materialism Conference. Barcelona, Spain.
(summer 2026)
Past Events
Keynote Speaker
2022
McNair & ROP Emerging Scholars Ceremony
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.
2021
"Wilson Usedo: Si Se Puede" Award Recipient
& Class of 2021 Graduation Ceremony
Latino Cultural Center
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
Invited Talks (non-exhaustive)
2026
Paul Gomberg’s “Anti-Racism as Communism” [Author Meets Critics panel].
Marxism and Philosophy Association session.
American Philosophical Association (APA) Eastern Division, Baltimore, MD.
2022
“Why Colonization is an Oversimplified Story of Hispanidad”
Hispanic Heritage Month Speaker Series
Scottsdale Community College, Scottsdale, AZ.
2022
“Binti and Africanfuturism”
Center for Ethics.
Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA.
2021
“Mujerista Ethics: Reimagining Self-Ownership”
Phil/Rels Conversations: Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies.
Ball State University, Muncie, IN.
2021
“The Non-Hispanic "Hispanics: Gitanos Adding more Complexity to the Ethnorace”
Hispanic Heritage Month Series: Latinx & Latin American Studies, and Department of Philosophy.
SUNY (State University of New York), Cortland, NY.
2020
"How Does Capitalism Create an Identity Crisis for Our Species?"
PurSysT (Purdue Systems Thinkers) Colloquium Series.
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
2018
“The Double-Standard of Nomadism: Who’s Allowed to Move? On Gitanos ("Gypsies") of Spain,”
RPA Panel: Radical and Indigenous Philosophy.
American Philosophical Association (APA) Central Division, Chicago, IL.
Presentations (non-exhaustive)
2025
“Afropessimism’s Mistaken Social Ontology: Toward a Materialist Analysis of Anti-Black Racism,”
The Society for Peace, Internationalism, and Ecology (SPINE).
Villanova University, Villanova, PA
2025
“Marxism, Indigenous Philosophy, and Ecological Solidarities: Rethinking Nature as a Worker,”
The Power of Marxist Thought Conference.
York University, Toronto, Canada.
2025
“To Whither or Flourish: What we can learn from Marx and Plants about Living a Good Life,”
Phenomenologies of Mental Health, Well-Being, and Flourishing.
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA.
2024
“Essentialism & Totalizing Systems for the Sake of Solidarity,”
Solidarity and Class Struggle: 16th Biennial Conference of the Radical Philosophy Association.
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
2023
"If Marx Knew About the Microbiome"
American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division)
San Francisco, CA
2022
“Bread for the Body, Roses for the Soul: The Revolution Must Demand Health,”
Radical Philosophy Association 15th Biennial Conference: “The Point is to Change it”.
University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL.
2020
“Teaching Philosophy of Race,”
Philosophy of Education Society
Pittsburg, PA.
2017
“The Womanist and Mujerista Critique of Self-Ownership,”
Inclusive Philosophies Conference
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
2016
"The Fetishization of Individual Freedom: How a False Social Ontology Has Taken Over the World, and What Can Be Put in Its Place,"
12th Biennial RPA Conference: 21st-Century Socialism, Concepts and Visions.
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
2015
“Organizing the Precariat Class as a Strategy for Systemic Transformation,”
Renovación Socialista y Crisis Capitalista conference.
University of Havana, Havana, Cuba.
2013
“Deterritorializing Paris: The Situationist International as a Nomadic War Machine,”
Stony Brook University Philosophy and the Arts Conference.
Stony Brook University, New York, NY.
2013
“The Paris Commune,”
International Socialist Organization Lecture Series.
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
2012
“An Analysis of Creativity as a Cure to the Existential Crisis,”
The 13th National Conference for McNair Scholars.
University of Maryland, College Park, MD.
Commentator
2023
J. Reese Faust’s “John Brown Did Nothing Wrong: A Critical Legal Theory of Whiteness”
Philadelphia Normative Philosophy conference
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2019
Victor Guerra’s “How to Deal with Kant’s Racism: In and Out of the Classroom”
Race and Education Panel. American Philosophical Association (APA) Eastern Division
New York, NY.
2020
Elvira Basevich's "What is an Anti-Racist Philosophy of Race in Kant and Hegel?"
Hegel and the Unity of Science Conference.
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
Panels Organized & Chaired
2026
[organized] “Social Reproduction Theory”. (RPA affiliate group session)
American Philosophical Association (APA) Eastern Division. Baltimore, MD.
2024
[organized] "Anti-Racist and Anti-Fascist Internationalism" (RPA affiliate group session)
American Philosophical Association (APA) Eastern Division. New York, NY.
2019
[chaired] Author Meets Critics: Linda Martin Alcoff’s “Rape and Resistance”
American Philosophical Association (APA) Central Division. Denver, CO.
2016
[chaired] Panel: “Non-Violence and Suffering,”
12th Biennial RPA Conference: 21st-Century Socialism, Concepts and Visions.
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
2016
[chaired] Panel: “Power, Violence, and Vulnerability”
Philosophy Born of Struggle. Theorizing within Revolt: Black Power, Black Life, & Black Thought -
The Role of Africana Philosophy in 21st Century Struggles.
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.
