selected talks

• Title

  Date

  Type

• Equity in Climate Change Adaptation

  World Water Week

  Aug, 2019

  selected talks

• Fit to Scale: Community Engagement for Site, City, and Region

  Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit

  Jun, 2019

  selected talks

• Creating Agency: The Power of Community Organizing

  Design Futures

  May, 2019

  selected talks

• Design for Health

  Nio Far Dakar Conference

  Apr, 2019

  selected talks

• Women in Kibera: Climate Warriors

  Hague Talks

  Mar, 2019

  selected talks

• Ask, Listen, Collaborate, Repeat

  Cusp Conference

  Oct, 2018

  selected talks

• Crime and Fear in Public Spaces

  KTH Royal Institute of Technology

  Oct, 2018

  selected talks

• Acknowledgement to Action: From Identifying Systems of Oppression to Designing Community-led Interventions and Systems Change

  Design Futures

  May, 2018

  selected talks

• A Tale of Two Ponds

  Architalx

  Apr, 2018

  selected talks

• Afrika Design

  Nairobi Design Week

  Mar, 2018

  selected talks

• Urban Risk or Resilience? Opportunities for Improving Informal Settlements in Urban Africa

  Wilson Center

  Mar, 2018

  selected talks

• One 'Slum', Three Upgrades

  Rift Valley Forum

  Mar, 2018

  selected talks

• City-Citizen Collaboration in Contested Spaces

  World Urban Forum

  Mar, 2018

  selected talks

• The Salton Sea and the Nairobi Dam: A Parable of Two Ponds

  The Water Center at KTH Royal Institute of Technology

  Nov, 2017

  selected talks

• Dangerous Landscapes? Re-Thinking Environmental Risk in Low-Income Communities

  Herrenhausen Conference

  Nov, 2017

  selected talks

• Advocacy Through Design; Ecology, Design and Community at California's Salton Sea

  ASLA Annual Meeting and Expo

  Oct, 2017

  selected talks

• A Tale of Two Cities: Creating Productive Public Spaces in Nairobi and Coachella

  University of Michigan SEAS

  Oct, 2017

  selected talks

• The Role of Informal Actors as Service Providers in Urban Africa

  SIPRI Stockholm Security Conference

  Sep, 2017

  selected talks

• Urban Tinkering: Innovation in Nature-Based Solutions to Simultaneously Address Climate Change and Uncertainty, Improve Urban Health and Generate Multiple Other Benefits

  7th International Conference on Sustainability Science

  Aug, 2017

  selected talks

• Heterogeneity in flood and linked risks across neighbourhoods in Kibera, Nairobi

  RGS-IBG Annual International Conference

  Aug, 2017

  selected talks

• Community-Responsive Adaptaton: A Transformative Process for Environmental Remediation along the Informal Settlements of the Ngong River, Nairobi

  Resilience 2017 Conference

  Aug, 2017

  selected talks

• Community-Responsive Adaptation to Flooding

  AEES 17th Annual Meeting

  May, 2017

  selected talks

• Community-Responsive Adaptation to Flooding in Kibera, Nairobi

  LUND University Center for Sustainability

  Mar, 2017

  selected talks

• Implementing the New Urban Agenda: From Local to Global Sustainable Urban Development

  Nordic Urban Ways

  Dec, 2016

  selected talks

• By the People: Designing a Better America

  National Endowment for the Arts

  Oct, 2016

  selected talks

• Community Engagement and Tactical Urbanism

  Greenbuild International Conference and Expo

  Oct, 2016

  selected talks

• Nuestro Lugar & Productive Public Spaces

  Next Generation Rural Creative Placemaking Summit

  Oct, 2016

  selected talks

• Regional Planning Through Local Community Outreach

  APA California Conference

  Oct, 2016

  selected talks

• Be Heard

  Habitat III - Next City: World Stage

  Oct, 2016

  selected talks

• Providing Safe, Inclusive and Accessible Public Spaces

  Habitat III - Next City

  Oct, 2016

  selected talks

• Focus Africa: Informality and Urban Pattern

  Mobilizing the Periphery

  Jul, 2016

  selected talks

• Kibera Public Space Project: A Participatory Approach to Upgrading in Nairobi's Largest Slum

  Future of Places III

  Jul, 2015

  selected talks

• Placemaking at the Edge of the Salton Sea

  Allied Media Conference

  Jun, 2015

  selected talks

• Powerful: Women Leading Design Symposium

  AIA Los Angeles

  Feb, 2015

  selected talks

• WATSAN Portal: Kibera – Improving Access to Water and Sanitation in Nairobi’s Largest Slum

  Columbia Center for Sustainable Urban Development

  Jun, 2014

  selected talks

• Kibera Public Space Project: a Participatory Approach to Upgrading in Nairobi’s Largest Slum

  University of Cambridge Echohouse Research Conference

  Jan, 2014

  selected talks

• Sustainable Urban Alternatives through Productive Public Space

  Ford Program Discussions on Development

  Apr, 2012

  selected talks

• Global Innovations in Development and Housing

  APA National Planning Conference

  Apr, 2012

  selected talks

• Sustainable and Inclusive Cities: the Right to the City

  Design with the Other 90%: Cities

  Nov, 2011

  selected talks

• Landscape, Infrastructure and Urbanism in the Global South

  TUM Metropolis Nonformal Symposium

  Oct, 2011

  selected talks

• Emergent Cities: Navigating the MIDDLE

  Next Eco-City: Emergent Urbanism Symposium

  Apr, 2011

  selected talks

• The Right to the City - Bridging the Urban Divide

  World Urban Forum 5

  Mar, 2010

  selected talks

• Work Sessions in Kibera, Kenya

  Harvard GSD Center for Technology and Environment

  Nov, 2006

  selected talks