Speaking & Teaching
I believe food, plants, fungi, and sustainability are powerful entry points for connection, creativity, and healing. Over the years, I’ve shared this passion through classes, workshops, and speaking engagements that weave together culinary techniques, herbalism, sustainability practices, and storytelling. My teaching style is both approachable and inspiring, inviting people to deepen their knowledge while engaging all the senses.
From hands-on cooking classes and herbal immersions to talks on sustainability, functional mushrooms, and ethical food systems, I create experiences that leave participants with practical skills, fresh perspectives, and a renewed appreciation for the natural world. Whether in the kitchen, classroom, or on stage, I love creating spaces where curiosity, community, and conscious living can flourish.
.Noteworthy Gigs & Speaking experience
Lecture & Presentation|Introduction to Culinary & Medicinal Mushrooms|Colorado Mountain College|December 2023
Presentation|“Truffle Mushroom: Magic, Folklore & Gastronomy”|Medicinal Mushroom Symposium|Virtual 2022
Presenter|Hemp as High Vibe Nutrition| Indigenous Hemp Conference| Anishinanaabe Agriculture Institute| White Earth, Minnesota, March 2022
Panel|The Power of the Plant: Hemp As an Eco-Solution to Climate Change| Earth Guardian Event|April 2021
Guest Lecturer|Graduate Anthropology Seminar| Cross Cultural Fermentation|NMSU|April 2021
Presentation|Food Sovereignty & Hemp for Vitality|Indigenous Hemp Conference|Virtual March 2021
Teacher|High Vibe Fungi for Yogis|Moov Festival| Virtual January 2021
Presentation| Cordyceps & Turkey Tail Medicine| Telluride Mushroom Festival|August 2020
Presentation| Truffles: Murder, Mayhem & Magic|Telluride Mushroom Festival|August 2020
Speaker| Green Renaissance Panel| Seattle, Washington| Virtual August 2020
Presentation| Truffles: Gastronomy, Murder and Mayhem|Growing Farmer’s Summit|Winter 2020
Presentation|Using Your Business As a Force for Good: Sustainability, BCORP & Mission Driven Business in the New Cannabis Economy| Denver, Colorado|March 2019
Presentation| High Vibe Hemp Nutrition| Southern Hemp Expo| Nashville, TN|September 2018
Workshop|Hemp is the Answer: How to Increase Your Vitality with Hemp| Arise Music Festival| August 2018
Panel| ABC’s of CBD| ARISE MUSIC FESTIVAL *August 2018
Panel| A Place for Hemp| Terpenes & Testing Conference| April 2018
Panel| Women’s Health and CBD| NOCO Hemp Expo| March 2018
Workshop| Hemp Food for Vitality| Arise Music Festival| August 2017
Panel| Women in Cannabis| Arise Music Festical| August 2017
Panel|Morality of Capitalism Symposium, University of Nebraska, Kearney| April 2016
Presentation|Hemp Food: An Exploration| NOCO Hemp Expo| March 2016
Illegal Hemp Breakfast|Jared Polis & Thomas Masey|Denver, CO August 2015
500 Baklava|Telluride Mountain Film Festival|Opening Symposium Telluride, CO May 2015
Winner Hummus Throwdown|Judges Panel & Popular Vote|Boulder Internation Film Festival|Boulder, CO October 2015
Adjunct Professor | Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, UDC - Washington, DC.
Adjunct Professor| Introduction to World Cultural Geography, UDC - Washington, D.C.
Adjunct Professor| Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Champlain College, Burlington, VT.
Adjunct Professor| Introduction to World Cultural Geography, Champlain College, VT.