“Forging Solidarities,” Ofrenda Virtual. Ancestral Futurities: Memory, Tempo, & Countrapunto, Mexico City (virtual participation), Neplantla Times, October 2020

“The Building Blocks and Infrastructural Anatomy of a Deportation Regime,” paper presentation at the American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., Summer 2020 (accepted)

“Abolitionist Visions and Why NYC’s Carceral Reforms Will Fail,” Lecture Series on Community Organizing and the Prison Industrial Complex, NYU Prison Education Program, NYSDOC Wallkill Correctional Facility, Wallkill, NY, April 2020 (invited)

“Critical Approaches to Spaces of Migrant Detention,” 2020 Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, April 2020 (accepted)

“The Crossroad of Activist Scholarship and Contemporary History of Immigration Detention,” Lecture Series Celebrating 100th Anniversary of the Women’s Suffrage Movement, Saint Peter’s University, Jersey City, NJ, March 2020 (invited)

“We Want Freedom: Immigration Detention in New Jersey: County Jails and the Case for Abolition,” at ESS Critical Migration Studies Mini Conference, Philadelphia, PA, February 2020

“What’s Up with Jailing in America and How We Can Fight It,” invited panelist for AORTA. New York, New York, November 2019

“The Infrastructure of Immigration Detention and Abolishing ICE in the Era of Carceral Reforms,” at conference titled, De-Carceral Futures: Bridging Prison and Immigration Justice. Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada, May 2019

“Crises and Carceral Reforms: The Infrastructure of Immigration Detention in New Jersey County Jails,” at conference titled, Immigration in the Age of Criminality, Precarity, Resilience, and Resistance, hosted by the Social Anatomy of a Deportation Regime Working Group, John Jay, CUNY, New York, NY, April 2019

“Critical Pedagogies in Spaces of Teaching and Activist Scholarship,” at conference titled, Change and Transformation: Possibilities, Resistance, and Positionality, LaGuardia Community College, New York, NY, May 2019

“Abolishing ICE? Dismantling Immigration Confinement in the Era of Carceral Crises and Reforms” 2019 Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., April 2019

“Racial Capitalism and Technologies of Containment,” 2019 Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., April 2019

“The Trial Before the Trial: Author Earnie Larsen in conversation with Marlene Nava Ramos,” hosted by the Center for Place Culture and Politics, Graduate Center, CUNY, New York, NY, February 2019

“Solidarity & Power,” at symposium titled, Breaking Down Walls and Prison Plantations: Mumia Abu-Jamal, Migrants, and Movements for Liberation, Holyrood Church, New York, NY, March 2018

“The Crises of Authority and the Local Origins of Immigration Enforcement,” at BCRW Feminist & Scholars Conference: Surveillance and the State, Barnard College, New York, NY, February 2018

“Local Policing and Local Detention: Mapping the Crises, Ruptures, and Restructurings in Racial Capitalism and the Inventions of the Criminal Alien,” 2017 Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, April 2017

“Abolitionist Politics in Immigration Justice,” invited panelist for a senior seminar course, Barnard College, New York, NY, Spring 2016

“The Borderland spaces of Immigration Detention: A Survey of Crises and Restructuring in Newark, NJ,” 2016 Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, April 2016

“An Introduction to Abolition and U.S. Immigration Enforcement,” Immigrant Movement International, Queens, NY, Fall 2015

“The Making of Borderlands and Fighting the Deportation Regime, Abroad and at Home,” Roundtable Participant, 2015 GEOS Colloquium Series, New York, NY, Spring 2015

“Contextualizing U.S. immigration enforcement: the productivity of immigrant detention and deportation,” Paper Presentation, 2015 International Conference on Critical Geography, Ramallah, Palestine, July 2015

“We are Not Criminals: Dangers of Messaging in Youth Organizing,” invited panelist, James Baldwin School, New York, NY, Spring 2015

“Conservacionistas: Latino/as, Energy Conservation and Another Immigrant Paradox in the Context of Hardship,” Panel Presentation, Second Latina Researchers Conference, New York City, NY, April 2014

“Immigration Reform, Enforcement, and a Local Response to Secure Communities,” Panel/Discussion at New Directions in Immigration: Interdisciplinary Research Perspectives, CUNY Graduate Center, New York City, NY, Spring 2014

“New Crises and Emerging Question: Future Directions in Prison and Immigration Detention Research,” Panel Presentation, Geographies of Mass Incarceration Conference, Penn State University, State College, PA, Fall 2013

“In the Face of Criminalization: Immigration and Arizona’s SB 1070,” organized by Todos Somos Arizona, Los Angeles, CA, Fall 2010

“Redress Fashion: Student organizing Against Sweatshop Labor,” Panel Presentation, organized by People & Planet Network, Sheffield, England, Spring 2007