Speaking

Can Sustainability Criteria Bring Finance Down to Earth? Anthropology of European Finance: Generating and Coping with Conteporary Unsettlings. American Anthropological Association. November 12, 2022.

Climate Finance. Discussion at Liberty Mutual. November 10, 2022.

Debt's Moral Labels: Sustainable Finance and Value Transformation in Crisis. With Chelsie Yount-André and Ben Eyre. Society for Economic Anthropology 42nd Annual Meeting. June 1, 222.

Climate Finance and the Blue Economy. A presentation to Fire and Ice. University of Alaska Fairbanks. April 14 2022.

An Anthropologist working on Campus Sustainability. A presentation to Applied Anthropology. Brandeis University. February 2022.

An Anthropologist in Climate Finance. A presentation at Economies and Cultures. Brandeis University. December 2021.

Green in White: The Production of Sustainable Futures in Green Bond Market White Papers. Financing the Future panel, American Anthropological Association Annual Conference. 2021.

Turning Debt Blue: Logics of Conservation in the Blue Economy and Sustainable Finance. Anthropology and Conservation Virtual Conference. 25-29 October 2021.

Chasing Waves: The Interaction Between Offices and Waters in The Blue Economy. 4S Becoming with Water Panel. September 2021.

(with David Wood and Elizabeth Ferry). Mrs. Columbo’s Anti-Politics Machine: Quantitative Data in Responsible Finance. SIEF2021 15^th Congress.

Chasing Waves: Strategies for Connecting and Analysing Offices in the Blue Economy. Presenter at 8th Ethnography and Qualitative Research Conference, Universita di Trento. 10 June, 2021.

Energized Conversations with Green Bonds: Images and Narratives around Energy in Climate Finance. University of St Andrews Center for Energy Ethics Energy Cafe. 8 June, 2021. See presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEnvN5cvAMw.

Landscapes of Value in an Office Place. Society for Economic Anthropology Spring Meeting 2021. 4 March. See presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnNlHdwsNog.

Presenting on Climate: Climate Change Data and Images in Climate Finance. Presented to Critical and substantivist perspectives on ‘sustainable’ finance and development. University of Bologna. February 2021.

Careers and Climates: Work and Personhood in the Green Bond Market.” Presented on March 25th at the IMPACT HAU Inaugural Workshop. Bologna, Italy. 2020.

“I don’t know what Climate Change is: Expertise and Experience in Climate Finance.” Presented on November 21st at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Vancouver, CA. 2019.

Green Bonds 101 Workshop.” Conducted on August 1st at consulting/engineering company Atkins. London, UK. 2019.

“My Career has been a Charitable Donation: Fashioning Personhood in Climate Finance.” Presented on March 2nd at the Society for Economic Anthropology Annual Meeting. Orlando. 2019.

“Sustainable Fintech and Greening the Bond market: How the Cultures of Silicon Valley and Wall Street Frame Possibilities in Climate Finance.” Presented on November 14th at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Jose. 2018.

“Green Bonds 101 Workshop.” Conducted on April 30th with First Environment’s Phillip Ludvigsen at Antioch University’s 2018 Local Solutions: Eastern Climate Preparedness Conference. Manchester, NH. 2018.

“Engaged Data: The Use of Measurement by Sustainability Practitioners.” Presented on April 7th at the Society for Applied Anthropology Conference. Philadelphia. 2018.

"Engaged Data: Translating engineering and environmental/climate expertise into finance.” Presented on January 30th at consulting/engineering company Arup. London, UK. 2018.

“Assembling Green Bonds: The Development of a Market across Fields of Expertise and Perception.” Presented on October 31st at Cass Business School’s ETHOS: The Centre for Responsible Enterprise. London, UK. 2017.

“Assembling a Market: Green Bonds and the Translation of Expertise.” Presented on November 28th at University College of London Anthropology Department’s Human Ecology Research Group. London, UK. 2017.

“Green Bonds & Cities.” Presented on November 29th at Climate-KIC’s Financing Smart Sustainable City Districts Workshop, Impact Hub Westminster. London, UK. 2017.

“Mobilizing Bond Markets for Climate Change Solutions: The green bond market and the work of the Climate Bonds Initiative.” Presented on September 14th at law firm Norton Rose Fulbright. New York. 2017.

“Imagining Green Infrastructure: European Perceptions in the Green Bond Market.” Presented on November 18th, at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Minneapolis. 2016.

“Translating to Risk: The Legibility of Climate Change and Nature in the Green Bond Market.” Presented on April 15th, at the Society for Economic Anthropology Annual Meeting, University of Georgia. Atlanta, GA. 2016.

“The Divestment Report: Facts. Background. Recommendations.” Presented on January 21st, at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. 2016.

“Assembling a Green Bond Market.” Presented October 17th, at Brandeis Anthropology Research Seminar (BARS): Graduate Student Conference. Waltham, MA. 2015.

(Co-Organizer/Presenter with Ryan H. Collins) “Anthropological Airwaves: Constructing Public Dialogues through Digital Media” (Workshop). Presented March 26th, at the 75th Society for Applied Anthropology: A Worldwide Organization for the Applied Social Sciences, Pittsburgh, PA. 2015.

“Making Markets: The Emergence of Climate and Green Bonds.” Presented April 18th, at the Intersections of Cultural Studies and Finance’ Symposium at UNC Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill, NC. 2015.

(Co-Presenter with Adam Gamwell and Ryan H. Collins) “Constructive Airwaves: Social Science and Public Engagement Through Radio and Digital Media.” Presented on September 20th, at North American series of the International Academic Forum (IAFOR), Providence, RI. 2014.