Presentations and Talks
I love presenting! I enjoy connecting with the audience, exciting them about ideas and inciting conversation. Here are some presentations and talks I’ve delivered.
UPCOMING
Change and Variation in Canada Workshop (CVC14), Edmonton, Canada
June 2025
Devaluation of non-Canadian English accents in hiring evaluations: Digging deeper (featured talk)
Canadian Linguistic Association Conference, Montreal, Canada
June 2025
Nurturing language activism in students in a course on linguistic discrimination and justice
PAST
National Black Canadians Summit, Montreal, Canada
February 2025
Emerging technologies and Black people (invited panelist; with Rhonda McEwen, Alexie Tcheuyap and Hervé Saint-Louis)
ASHA Convention 2024 (online)
December 2024
Wee Talk Trini: Consonant Acquisition in Trinidadian Preschoolers (with Keisha T. Linsday Nurse)
Language Science Talks, UBC, Vancouver, Canada (link here)
November 2024
Parallels between Indigenous languages and Creoles: What can we learn from the past and apply to the future? (invited panelist; with Henry Davis, Molly Babel, Michelle Kamigaki-Baron and Angelina Rose)
Pathways to Prosperity 2024 National Conference, Vancouver, Canada
November 2024
Addressing remote work challenges faced by newcomers to Canada (poster; with Suzanne Huot)
27th Canadian Ethnic Studies Association Biennial Conference, Edmonton, Canada
November 2024
The wrong side of the English tracks: Accent bias in hiring evaluationsAdjustment, balance and belonging among newcomers engaged in remote work in Canada (with Suzanne Huot)
UBC Linguistics Colloquia Series, Vancouver (link here)
November 2024
Take my word for it: Evaluations of scripted interview responses
Canadian Linguistic Association Conference, Ottawa, Canada
June 2024
Speaking of immigrants: Commentary on the aural employability of non-Canadian English (with Derek Denis)
Language Latitudes Workshop, Vancouver, Canada
April 2023
Speaking of immigrants: Evaluations of Non-Canadian English accents in hiring decisions
Language and Power Conference, Münster, Germany
March 2023
More than words: Non-Canadian English accents and hiring decisions in Toronto
Canadian Linguistic Association 2022 Conference (online)
June 2022
What I Say or How I Say It? Ethnic Accents and Hiring Decisions in Toronto (poster)
Workshop on Linguistic Equity and Justice 2022 (online)
April 2022
What I Say or How I Say It? Ethno-racial Accents and Hiring Decisions in the GTA
New Ways of Analyzing Variation 2021 Conference (online)
October 2021
Acquiring Variable Phonologies in Trinidad: Assessing (Sociolinguistic) Acquisition in a Bivarietal Context (with Derek Denis)
Speech-Language and Audiology Association of Trinidad and Tobago meeting
September 2021
Acquisition Norms for Trinidadian Children
Canadian Linguistic Association 2021 Conference (online)
June 2021
Pronoun Acquisition in a Varilingual Context
Caribbean Research Methodologies (CRM) Online Seminar
Oct 2020
Caribbean Language Acquisition Research: Hybridisation as EndonormativeBridging Wor(l)ds, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
April 2018
Wee Talk Trini: Variation in Trinidadian Pre-schoolers’ SpeechVariation in Language Acquisition 3, Salzburg, Austria
Feb 2017
Wee Talk Trini: Variation in Past Tense Expressions of Trinidadian Pre-schoolersSociety for Caribbean Linguistics 21st Biennial Conference, Mona, Jamaica
Aug 2016
Trinidadian Pre-schoolers’ Personal Pronouns and Possessive DeterminersSociety for Caribbean Linguistics 20th Biennial Conference, Palm Beach, Aruba
Aug 2014
Screening for Language Development among Trinidadian English Creole-speaking Children (with Valerie Youssef)