βThe moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom, to act in ways that liberate ourselves and others.β -bell hooks Peel Family Mediation Services 2023 Symposium UMC LEAD Conference: Seattle, WA TEDx Williamsport United Church of Canada Women's Presentation Wild Goose Festival, North Carolina Co-Creator Session- Planting Love Letters Responding to the Trauma of COVID-19 with Creative Community Research and Craft Fairs United Women in Faith: Harrisburg Pennsylvania Speaking at Take Back the Night Speaking on behalf of YWCA NorthCentral PA -Photo Credit- Penn College of Technology Rural Women's Studies Association, Arkansas State University Canadian Association for Studies in Co- operation, HEC Montreal Stitched Together- Mckendree Memorial Portland, Tennessee Presentation based on 2015 article written in the United Methodist Response Magazine