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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:

Mel Michelle Lewis

“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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Please visit Adela’s scholarship page here