2011 Unknown and Unstated Paternity and the Indian Act. Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement.  An International Conference on Motherhood Activism, Advocacy, Agency. Toronto. Click here for Abstract

2011 Kinoomaagewapkong: The Peterborough Petroglyphs.  Tenth Annual Indigenous Women’s Symposium, Trent University. Click here for Abstract

2010  Debwewin Miikan-Zhidchigewin.  International Conference-Indigenous Studies PhD 10th Anniversary Celebration, Trent University. Click here for Abstract

2009  Dibaajimowin: Indian Registration, Identity, Membership, and Citizenship.  Keynote Speaker.  E-Dbendaagzijig (Those Who Belong) Conference.  Union of Ontario Indians, Garden River First Nation, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.

2009  Wampum Belt Exchange at Niagara.  Ninth Annual Indigenous Women’s Symposium, Trent University.

2008 Maan pii nde’ eng: Situating the Algonquin Anishinaabe Nation Within the History of the Treaty Process in Canada.  Thomas H. B. Symons Seminar Series on Graduate Research, Trent University.

2007  The Anishinaabe Clan System of Governance.  Indigenous Research Day, Trent University.

2007  The Anishinaabe Clan System of Governance.  Fourth Annual Trent-Carleton Graduate Student Conference, Trent University.

2007  Telling My Story of ‘The Queen and I’: Discrimination in the Indian Act Continues.  Eighth Annual Indigenous Women’s Symposium, Trent University.

2006  Building Identity Through Another Way of Knowing: Learning the Algonquin Landscape and Coming to Know William Commanda.  With William Commanda present.  Seventh Annual Indigenous Women’s Symposium, Trent University.

2005  Disabilities/Gifts in Aboriginal Communities.  Invited panel member/speaker.  The Inter-University Disability Issues Association, Queen’s University.

2005  Aboriginal Peoples and Their Gifts/Disabilities: A First-Person Perspective and a Model of “Unharnessed Knowledge”.  Invited conference presenter.  Canadian Association of College and University Student Services, Ryerson University.

2005  Provided a perspective as a community member/litigant regarding Bill C-31 amendments to the Indian Act and how it continues to be unconstitutional.  Invited panel member/speaker, Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto.

2005  Disabilities in Aboriginal Communities.  Ontario Native Educational Counselling Association conference, Toronto.

2004  The Intersection of the Gendering of Native Identity and the Algonquin Treaty Process.  Centre for Social Justice Summer Retreat, Algonquin Park, Ontario.

2003  The Algonquin Nation-Building Project: Shifting from Colonial Power to Indigenous Power.  Eighth Annual International Wanapitei Aboriginal History and Politics Colloquium, Temagami, Ontario.

2003  Reclaiming Aboriginal Consciousness from State Imposed Essentialism: An Exercise in Postcolonial Ghost Dancing.  Trent University Research Forum.

2002  “Parts Unknown” or Reconciliation in Black Motherlove.  Examining and Expanding the Meanings of Motherlove, York University.

2000  Roundtable Discussions: The Continued Discrimination in the Indian Act.  Ontario Litigant Representative and Invited Speaker for Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto, Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto.

2001  The Rebuilding of a Nation: A Grassroots Anti-Colonial Critique of the Nation-Building Process in Canada.  Perspectives on Social Inequalities: Issues of Race, Class, and Gender Worldwide, York University.

2001  The Rebuilding of a Nation: A Grassroots Anti-Colonial Critique of the Nation-Building Process in Canada.  Perspectives on Social Inequalities: Issues of Race, Class, and Gender Worldwide, International Forum, Howard University, Washington, D.C.

1990  The Determination of Organolead Compounds in Industrial Effluents.  Environmental Research Technology Transfer Conference.  Toronto.  Mark Powell, Dr. Ijaz Ahmad and Lynn (Gehl).  730-34.