2025
April 19: Book presentation at the Unbound Book Fest in Columbia, Missouri
April 9: Book presentation at the NYU Institute for Public Knowledge with New Yorker writer Eyal Press
March 3: Keynote speaker at the Arts and Culture Festival in Bentonville, AR
January 26: Featured speaker at the Kentucky Conservation Committee Summit in Frankfort, KY
2024
November 23-24: Book presentation at the Miami Book Fair in Miami, FL
November 16-17: Texas Book Festival in Austin, TX
October 26-27: Book presentation at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, TN
October 8-9: Book presentation at the VII Edición Congreso de Mérida Periodismo de Migraciones in Mérida, Spain
September 28: Book presentation at the Six Bridges Book Festival in Little Rock, AR
August 17: Book presentation at the NWA Book Fest in Fayetteville, AR
February 8: Lyons College "The Life and Death of the American Worker"
2023
November 2: Walton Arts and Ideas Series at the University of the Ozarks (in-person)
March 1: Denison University "Their Lives on the Line" (in-person)
January 23: Johns Hopkins "Reporting on Labor Rights in the Meatpacking Industry" with photographer Liz Sanders (Zoom)
2022
November 23: MIT Data + Feminism Lab "Data Against Feminicide" (Zoom)
September 12: Arkansas State University "Reporting on Femicide in Mexico" (in-person)
July 27-29: Photo Workshop with National Geographic photographer John Stanmeyer
April 20: Washington University in Saint Louis, "Migration at the U.S.-Mexico Border During the Pandemic" (Zoom)
March 28: Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, "Reporting on the US-Mexico Border" (in-person)
March 26: Arizona State University, "Femicide on the US-Mexico Border" (in-person)
March 10: Johns Hopkins SAIS and the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies Fourth Annual Security Challenges in Latin America forum "Security, Defense, and Gender: What are the Impacts?" (in-person)
2021
December 6: Zoom book launch at 6pm PST Silence and Omissions: A Media Guide for Covering Gender-Based Violence
September 23: Baldwin Wallace University "How Studying Spanish Prepared Me for a Career in Journalism"
September 20: University of San Francisco "Reporting and Working as a Journalist in Spanish"
July 23-29: Visual Storytelling workshop with National Geographic photographer John Stanmeyer in Great Barrington, MA
May 19: Dallas Contemporary. "In Conversation: Artist Liu Xiaodong + Journalist Alice Driver."
May 3: Cornell University. "Migration at the US-Mexico Border During the Biden Era."
April 27: University of Innsbruck, Austria. "Gender and Migration: How Women and the LGBTQ Community Navigate the US-Mexico Border Crisis"
March 31: Harvard University Immigration Initiative. Keynote Lecture. 1-2:30PM EST.
February 16: Princeton University. "Reporting on the US-Mexico Border Crisis During the Pandemic."
2020
November 25: Mexican Studies Research Collective presentation & discussion of my book More or Less Dead
November 19: Eastern Kentucky University presentation on the importance of language acquisition in journalism
October 22: University of Nevada, Reno panel on the forced sterilization of women in detention centers in the US
October 20: Fordham University lecture on LGBTQ asylum seekers
September 2: Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University lecture on magazine writing
May 27: International Center for Photography on the art of fact-checking
March 8-18: Visual Storytelling Workshop with National Geographic photographer John Stanmeyer in Mérida, Mexico
March 3: Franklin College on covering the migration crisis at the US-Mexico border
March 2: Purdue University on covering the migration crisis at the US-Mexico border
2019
February 4-6: Colorado College School of Journalism, "On the Road with the Migrant Caravan" *You can watch the talk on C-SPAN here
October 10: International Journalist Conference on Migration in Mérida, Spain
September 18-19: University of Nevada, Reno on covering the migration crisis at the US-Mexico border
April 22: Clinton School of Public Service on covering the migration crisis at the US-Mexico border
April 15-19: Georgetown College, The University of Kentucky & Berea College on covering the migration crisis at the US-Mexico border
April 8: University of New Mexico, "On the Road with the Migrant Caravan"