Upcoming Events:

Past Events:

2018

• August 20: The Wing’s Camp No Man’s Land: Forever35 workshop on self-care and one-on-one interview with fitness entrepreneur Taryn Toomey

• April 7: Literary Orange, Newport Beach, California

• March 13: SXSW Panel moderator, “How Can Venture Capital Achieve Gender Parity?”
  
  

2017

• Nov. 4: Texas Book Festival.

• Nov. 11: Wordstock (Portland, OR).

• Aug. 17, 6:30pm: Women@Forbes/Rebecca Minkoff event.

• Sept. 1-3: Decatur Book Festival.

• July 27: WeAreLATech, Beach House Santa Monica, 7pm.

• June 15: Neuehouse (Los Angeles), 7 pm.

• June 11: Printers Row Book Festival (Chicago), 1 pm - 1:45 pm, "Fiction: Family Angst" panel.

• June 9: Madewell Rush Street (Chicago), 5-7 pm, book signing.

• June 3: Bay Area Book Festival (Berkeley, CA), 11:45 am - 1pm, "Absurd and Hilarious: Stories About Money" panel.

• June 1: BookPassage (SF Ferry Building), 6 pm, in conversation with Scaachi Koul.

• May 31: Madewell San Francisco Center, 6-8 pm, book signing.

• May 30, 2017: Stanford University Bookstore, 6 pm, in conversation with Mat Honan.

• May 17, 2017: BookPeople in conversation with Hugh Forrest.

• May 4, 2017: Skylight Books in conversation with Jade Chang.

• May 1, 2017: Trident Booksellers & Café in conversation with Joanna Rakoff.

• April 30, 2017: PRINT: A Bookstore in conversation with Annie Hartnett.

• April 27, 2017: PowerHouse Arena in conversation with Isaac Fitzgerald.

• April 26, 2017: Housing Works Bookstore in conversation with Jenna Wortham.
  
  

2016

• Dec. 2016, The Last Bookstore: 3-Minute Teen Stories, hosted by Jason Diamond.

• August 2016, Skylight Books: In conversation with Jessica Winter about her novel BREAK IN CASE OF EMERGENCY. 

• April 2016, Association of Writers and Publishers (AWP): "Pitch Perfect: How to Successfully Pitch Freelance Articles to Magazine Editors." 
  
  

2015

• Nov. 2015, UCB New Brain Panel Series

• Oct. 2015, Paley Center for Media & Google, "Cracking the Code: Diversity, Hollywood, & STEM" (interview of actress Danica McKellar)
  
  

2014

• Dec. 2014, BuzzFeed Live: IRL, OMG! (co-host)

• Nov. 2014, Miami Book Fair, moderator of "Critics in the Cloud: The State of Literary Criticism In the Age of the Internet" (reviewed here) 

• Nov. 2014, Creative Mornings, "The Evolution of BuzzFeed"

• Oct. 2014, Penn Humanities Forum, "The Future of Digital"

• June 2014, keynote speaker, Norwegian Online News Association (reviewed in Norwegian here)
  
  

2013

• Sept. 2013, Emerce eDay keynote speaker (post-talk video here)
  
  

2012

• March 2012, SXSW, "What the Internet Finds Funny: Creating and Covering Humor Online"

• Feb. 2012, "Like A Boss" Emily Books panel

Keynote Topics

New keynotes coming soon.

Expertise In:

• Online community building

• Writing

• Storytelling

• Consumer trends

• Wellness

Audience & Industry:

• Women's Events

• The Marketing and Advertising Industry

• Lecture Series

• The Professional Services Industry

• The Technology Industry

• Colleges and Universities