Upcoming Talks, Trainings, and Appearances, Spring 2026

📍 Upcoming Talks, Trainings, and Appearances, Spring 2026

Over the next several months, I will be participating in a series of public programs, professional trainings, and international conferences focused on trauma, sexuality, violence, and structural inequality. These engagements span performance, clinical education, and scholarly convenings, each addressing different audiences while engaging related questions about power, vulnerability, and misrecognition.

Below is an overview of where I will be appearing and the focus of each event.

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🎨 Skirball Cultural Center

Masters of Subversion: Confronting Cigar
Los Angeles, California

I will be participating in Masters of Subversion: Confronting Cigar, a live interdisciplinary program hosted at the Skirball Cultural Center in connection with the work of Philip Guston. The program brings together spoken word, music, and movement to examine how violence, subversion, and moral reckoning are embedded within visual art and historical memory.

📖 Book signing
Following the program, I will be signing copies of my book, Black Men and Racial Trauma: Impacts, Disparities, and Interventions, at the Skirball.

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🧠 Cambridge Health Alliance Psychiatry

Treating Couples: Surmounting Challenges

I will be presenting as part of Treating Couples: Surmounting Challenges, a continuing education series offered through Cambridge Health Alliance Psychiatry, a Harvard Medical School affiliated health system.

My session, Black Couples Therapy: Clinical Theory and Practice, focuses on theory driven clinical work with Black couples navigating chronic stress, relational conflict, and structural constraint. The presentation addresses therapist positioning, diagnostic limits, and the risks of applying dominant clinical models without sufficient attention to social context. The session concludes with a moderated discussion and Q and A.

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🏛️ National Association of Black Social Workers

58th Annual NABSW Conference
Detroit, Michigan

At the 58th Annual NABSW Conference, I will be presenting a 90 minute advanced workshop titled:

Black Men and Racial Trauma: Impacts, Disparities, and Interventions

This workshop examines how Black men in the United States experience trauma as a result of systemic racism, patriarchal violence, and structural inequality. It addresses collective and vicarious trauma transmitted through families, communities, and media, as well as Black men’s disproportionate exposure to sexual violence, intimate partner violence and homicide (IPV/IPH), police killings, and suicide.

The session challenges prevailing assumptions by drawing from Social Dominance Theory and genocide studies, including the concept of gendercide. Participants will examine how deficit based and pathology driven frameworks continue to shape professional practice despite limited empirical support, and will explore the implications of these models for social work, policy, and service delivery.

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🧩 International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation

ISSTD Annual Conference 2026

At ISSTD, I will be presenting a 90 minute advanced workshop titled:

Black Men and Racial Trauma: Impacts, Disparities, and Interventions

This workshop examines the specific forms of trauma experienced by Black men in the United States as a result of systemic racism, patriarchal violence, and structural inequality. It addresses collective and vicarious trauma transmitted through families, communities, and media, as well as Black men’s disproportionate exposure to homicide, intimate partner violence, sexual victimization, police killings, and suicide.

The workshop draws from Social Dominance Theory and genocide studies, particularly the concept of gendercide, to explain why outgroup men are especially vulnerable to violence in hierarchical societies. It also critiques deficit based and pathology driven frameworks that continue to shape research and clinical practice despite limited empirical support.

Participants will gain tools to identify, articulate, and respond to these dynamics across clinical and non clinical settings.

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🔑 Society for Sex Therapy and Research

SSTAR Annual Meeting 2026
Vancouver, British Columbia

I am honored to serve as a keynote speaker at the 2026 SSTAR Annual Meeting, themed Sexuality in Connection: A Systemic Perspective.

My keynote, Black Male Sexual Victimization, addresses the systematic underrecognition of sexual victimization among Black men and boys, and the consequences of this erasure for clinical practice, research, and professional training. The address situates sexual victimization within broader patterns of structural vulnerability and professional misrecognition, challenging long standing assumptions within sex therapy and sexuality research.

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Closing

Across these engagements, my goal remains consistent. To bring empirical clarity to experiences that are often obscured, to challenge theoretical assumptions that limit understanding, and to offer clinicians, scholars, and institutions frameworks that more accurately reflect Black male experience.

More to come.