In September of 2021, I was granted a fantastic and engaging opportunity to participate in the Especially Interesting podcast, run by Aucademy, and discuss my dedicated interest in yoyoing. It was an incredibly fun experience, and I hope to join them again to chat about coffee.

This is my first workshop for Autscape 2021, focused on discussion of how to utilize tact, diplomacy, and more to efficiently and productively advocate for the goals of the Autistic community. The workshop portion used three different scenarios, engaging with the audience on their responses.

This was my presentation for Autscape 2020, which advocated for use of memes for improved accessibility and inclusion in online spaces, especially in ways to further activism, advocacy and promotion of non-speaking autistics in social spaces.

DisInfoSec is a cybersecurity event featuring disabled speakers presenting on a variety of technology topics, and I was fortunate enough to speak virtually at this conference during the COVID-19 pandemic.
For more information, visit Disinfosec.tech

Initially a home project, I did a small presentation about my own experience attempting to build a NAS device using a Raspberry Pi SBC, some hard drives and Legos as the frame for Kansas Linux Fest in August of 2019.

A personal blog post about being autistic and masking, addressed to someone I've known for a long time.

A blog post-turned podcast episode, this began as a response to a parent concerned that their very young Autistic child was developing a keen interest in becoming an astronaut, and wanted to find a way to tell them that "People with autism can't be astronauts".

While this has a high possibility of being true, I felt the perspective of the parent was incredibly short-sighted and was missing out on cultivating the child's future interests and maybe even a career in something to do with space. Not everyone who wants to be an astronaut goes into space; however, a lot of them are involved with the space program.

A presentation I began making in 2017 that covers a lot of information for those new to Linux, encrypting a hard drive, secure communications and other topics; last updated 2019 (largest and on the right).

In 2015 and 2017, the Kansas City Chapter of the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network gave these presentations at the Autism Across The Lifespan conference; I was joined with fellow presenters Skyler Whittaker, Elizabeth Boresow, Gwen Edwards, and moderator Jessica Schuttler, PhD.

This was a training I put together when I served the board of the Autism Society - the Heartland in 2016 as part of a program to educate and inform autistics of voting age on how to vote, as well as use the accessibility and accommodations that are available for voter use.

In June of 2016, I was invited to take part in an episode of Central Standard on KCUR, a local NPR radio station, to talk about autism, the autistic community, and what constitutes disability.

A presentation I created for LinuxCon 2015, discussing the Confinement Cycle, various features and open-source assistive/accessible/ augmentative software that can be found in modern Linux desktop repositories (also what's working and what isn't), and issues in making a home fully accessible and automated using open source software and hardware.

Following up on my last article, I had the pleasure of interviewing Colin Fulton about his LinuxCon presentation, called "Open Interfaces: Accessibility Matters" in August of 2015, and why accessibility should be an integral part of the open source community.

In May of 2015 I followed up my previous article with another, detailing how to use open hardware to build better assistive technology, covering why closed-source assistive technology is a problem, disassembling a closed-source AT device, and describing various open hardware projects that would be excellent for usage as assistive technology for persons with disabilities.

In April of 2015, I wrote an article for opensource.com listing reasons why persons with disabilities should use LInux, citing flexibility, cost and access to developers, among others.

A presentation I gave for the Kansas City Open Hardware Group conference in 2014, talking about open-source accessibility, the Confinement Cycle, and how to create accessible devices and living spaces using open-source hardware

A presentation I created for LinuxCon 2014, discussing the Confinement Cycle, various features and open-source assistive/accessible/ augmentative software that can be found in modern Linux desktop repositories (also what's working and what isn't), and why users with disabilities can be an asset to Linux development.

I was interviewed by Rikki Endsley in July of 2014 about my LinuxCon presentation that same year, talking about the state of accessibility in Linux and open source software.

A presentation I made for LinuxCon 2013, discussing the state of Linux accessibility, the Confinement Cycle (and how Linux can break it), various features and open-source assistive/accessible/augmentative software that can be found in modern Linux desktop repositories (also what's working and what isn't), and why users with disabilities can be an asset to Linux development.

I wrote an article titled "Linux: Assistive Technology that’s Economical" that describes how Linux & open-source software are cost-effective sources for assistive technology in March of 2011, as part of my work as a Research Assistant at the UMKC Institute for Human Development. Page 12, 13 and 16.