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I've been teaching about LGBT community issues, bisexuality, and sexual health for years! I have lectured at universities and colleges, presented my sexuality research at conferences, and trained through Good Vibrations.

Lectures

Bisexual Lives: Representations and Realities
• Sexual Minorities and Sexual Health, Towson University. Baltimore, MD. Spring 2008. 
• Bi Visibility Project, University of California - Davis. Davis, CA. Fall 2007.
 • 6th Annual Summer Institute on Sexuality, Inequality, and Health, National Sexuality Resource Center of San Francisco State University. Summer 2007.

Research on Bisexual Health
 • LGBTI Health Elective, University of California - San Francisco Medical School. Spring 2006, Fall 2007, and Spring 2008.

After Kinsey: Bisexuality and Female Sexual Behavior
 • Theories of Female Sexuality, San Francisco State University. Fall 2005.
 • Introduction to Human Sexuality Studies, San Francisco State University. Fall 2005.

Introduction to Bisexuality Studies
 • Introduction to Human Sexuality Studies, San Francisco State University. Fall 2006. 
• Colloquium in Human Sexuality, San Francisco State University.
Fall 2005.

Sexual Compatibility for Female Couples
 • Issues in Lesbian Relationships, City College of San Francisco. Spring 2005.

Lesbian Erotic Imagery
 • African Amercian Sexuality Studies, California State University - Hayward (now CSU - East Bay) Hayward, CA. Summer 2002.
 • Variations in Human Sexuality, San Francisco State University. Summer 2002.
 • Introduction to Human Sexuality Studies, San Francisco State University. Fall 2002.

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Conferences

I was delighted to be part of the 5th Annual Symposium on Culture & Diversity at The Wright Institute, in April 2008, where I spoke to huge room filled with psychology grad students, on the topic of bisexual physical and mental health.

It was a complete thrill and honor to be a plenary speaker at the Gay & Lesbian Medical Association's 25th Annual Conference, which took place in September 2007 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The Association brought me to the conference to present information about Bisexual Health.

In October 2006, I presented information on cancer risk reduction and screening guidelines for the LGBTQI community, at Cancer in Our Lives: Raising Awareness in the LGBTQI Community, a joint conference of the Gay & Lesbian Medical Association and the American Cancer Society.

In August 2006, I led a workshop at the Femme Conference, titled "Bi Femme Discussion." Bisexual femmes and allies gathered to talk about biphobia, femme identity, and navigating our way through the queer and bi communities!

In October 2005, the Haitian Studies Association held its 17th annual conference, at the University of Massachusetts in Boston. On a panel about women's issues, I got to present my work from Waking Up American, an anthology which published an essay that I co-wrote on first-generation Haitian-American lesbian and bisexual women.

In June 2005, I presented my master's thesis research for the first time, during the International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society's conference in San Francisco. My master's thesis was on the sexual identity development of women who have had both male and female sexual partners.

In November 2003, the University of California - Los Angeles hosted the Q-Grad conference, for graduate students doing research on topics related to the LGBT community. (This annual event is now called the Los Angeles Queer Studies conference.) I was chosen to present data from a national research project I conducted on mixed-orientation female couples.

In August 2003, I presented at the 2nd North American Conference on Bisexuality, in San Diego, CA. My topic was an examination of the relationship issues of mixed-orientation female couples, and built off of the national research project I did. Results of this study were also published in an article I wrote for Girlfriends magazine in March 2004.

In June 2003, the Lesbian Health & Research Center of the University of California - San Francisco held its annual conference, and I was able to present on the sexual health needs of bisexual women.

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Good Vibrations

This business was founded by a sex therapist who wanted to encourage her clients to explore sexual fulfillment. During the time that I worked there, from 1999 to 2005, Good Vibrations ran a sexuality education outreach program in their Education Department, dedicated to providing free education and information both locally and nationally.

As a staff member in the Education Department during those years, I had the pleasure of providing presentations, in-service trainings, and classes for thousands of people across the US, including Planned Parenthood employees, medical students, teen parents, LGBT youth, and PhD candidates. In addition, I trained the company's sales staff.

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