Previous Speeches
and Presentations
Image above from TEDx Talk: How to Practice Politics with Music in Mind
Public Speaking
- AARP
- Alta Community Enrichment
- Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration: “Dancing in the Rain”
- Association for Integrative Studies
- Bureau of Land Management
- Center for Courage Renewal: “Politics of the Brokenhearted”
- Center for Integrative Leadership, Humphrey Institute for Public Affairs
- Central Utah Water Conservancy Board
- Coalition for Utah’s Future
- Community Transport Association
- Congress of Planetary Initiatives
- The Conservation Fund: “Gateway Communities: Keys to Success”
- Denali National Park: “Designing for Community”
- Dixie State College Dixie Forum
- Entrada Institute, “Oral Histories and Songs of Zion Canyon”
- Environment 2000 Steamboat Springs, CO
- Great Old Broads for Wilderness
- Hinckley Institute of Politics
- Mountain West Center for Regional Studies
- National Conservation Training Center
- National Endowment for the Arts: “The American Canvas”
- National Parks Conservation Association
- National Park Service’s River, Trails & Conservation Assistance Program
- Nevada Arts Council
- Parliament of the World’s Religions: “The Brahma Viharas”
- Sierra Leadership Council
- Snow College
- Southern Utah University Convocations
- State Departments of Agriculture
- TEDx Talk: How to Practice Politics with Music in Mind
- University of Utah
- Utah Arts Council’s Governor Awards
- U.S. Department of Transportation
- U.S. House Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands
- U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land Management
- Utah Department of Human Services
- Utah Humanities Council’s Anniversary Gala
- Utah Municipal Clerks Association
- Utah Parks & Recreation Association
- Utah Rural Summit
- Utah State University
- Utah Symposium on Science and Literature
- Utah Travel Council
- Utah Valley University
- Yellowstone National Park: “Development at the Doorsteps of America’s Public Lands: How Planning Can Shape a Better Future”
- Western Kentucky University
- Western States Tourism Policy Council: “Beyond the Boundaries: Building Gateway Partnerships for the 21st Century”
- The Wilderness Society
Academic Courses, Lectures and University/School Presentations
- Tanner Humanities Center Town Hall: “Creativity & Wellness” (2020)
- Radical Quiet (University of Utah Honors College course, 2019-present)
- The Fully Engaged Student: Awareness, Attention and Mindfulness in the 21st Century Classroom, HERU (Honors Education at Research Universities Conference, 2019)
- Kindness (University of Utah Honors College course, 2018)
- Opening the Mind’s Eye: Contemplative Practice and Higher Education (University of Utah Honors College Praxis Lab, with Joseph Metz, 2016-2017)
- Keynote: Improvisation and Community Health, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (2015)
- Half Moon at Checkerboard Mesa, Ecomusicologies 2014 Conference, University of North Carolina (2014)
- Expressing the Brahma Viharas in Music and Practice, Interdisciplinary Symposium on Empathy, Contemplative Practice and Pedagogy, the Humanities and the Sciences, University of Utah (2014)
- Honors Think Tank on Alzheimer’s Disease and Aging
University of Utah (2012-2013) - Composing a Community, 16-week course
University of Utah Honors College (2010-present) - Lecturer, Creative Visual Communication, University of Utah
- Lecturer, Experiencing the Arts, Westminster College, Salt Lake City
- Presentation, Roundout Valley Middle School, Accord, NY
- Guest lecture, Master Class, Mentoring, Western Kentucky University
- Presentation, Allen County Schools, Scottsville, KY
- Convocation Speaker, Zion Canyon Song Cycle, Snow College, Ephraim, UT
- Guest lecture, Oral History and Song, Symposium on Song
Utah State University - Guest lecture, Lockdown, Dixie State College Forum
- Guest lecture, Philosophy of Aesthetics, Utah State University
- Guest lecture, Cow Sounds and Pitchers’ Mounds, Symposium on Song Utah State University
- Convocation Speaker, Cow Sounds and Pitchers’ Mounds
Utah Valley State College - Guest lecture, Master Class, Utah State University
- Guest Lecture, Building Consensus in a Divided Community
Community Organization, University of Utah College of Social Work - Guest Lecture, The Arts and Humanities: Three ‘I’s’ onto the World
- Dixie Forum, Dixie State College, St. George, UT
- Convocation Speaker, Cow Sounds and Pitchers’ Mounds
General Assembly, Master Class, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT - Presentation, Baseball, Ragtime and Community, Symphony School, St. Louis
- Presentation, Baseball, Ragtime and Community, Crossroads School, St. Louis
- Presentation, Refuge and the Music of Landscape
Realms of Inquiry, Salt Lake City - Presentation, Refuge and the Music of Landscape
Box Elder School, Brigham City, UT - Composing a Community: Citizenship in Concert, MUSE Project, University of Utah (2013)
- The Pedagogy of Dialogue through Interdisciplinary Arts: From the College Classroom through Civic Engagement, Association for Integrative Studies, Grand Valley State University (2011)
- Composing a Community: Collaborative Performance of a New Democracy, Dean’s Convocation, Caine College of the Arts, Utah State University (2011)
- Composing a Community, Degrees to Anywhere: The Social Value of the Humanities, Utah Valley University (2011)
- Transforming the Gavel into a Baton, Center for Integrative Leadership, University of Minnesota (2010)
- The Big Bang: What Sound, Noise and Music Communicates, Utah Symposium in Science and Literature, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (2009)
- Composing a Community: Humanities, Politics and the Music of Dialogue, Annual Conference of the Association for Integrative Studies, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL (2009)
- Composing a Community: The Springdale Sonata, Utah Democracy Project, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT (2009)