Forthcoming Book Publication: Art as Information Ecology: Artworks, Artworlds, and Complex Systems Aesthetics by Duke University Press.

Forthcoming Book Publication: Wittgenstein and the Problem of Metaphysics: Aesthetics, Ethics and Subjectivity by Bloomsbury Press.

Was selected to co-chair the panel ""Mothering as a Work of Art" at the 2021 SECAC Conference.

Solo Exhibition: "Imaginary Letters to Vasily Grossman, Post-WWII Repatriation to Soviet Armenia" at the Festival TransCaucases (INALCO) Paris, France

Solo Exhibition: "Vital Traces" at the University of Maine at Farmington. September 14, 2021

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Presented “The Gaze of Anarchy: from the imaginary to its rehearsal" at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT).

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Presented “Mourning as True Anarchy—Philosophical Thinking Reimagined as a Grieving-With Shared Ecologies Upon an Earth in Trouble" at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT).

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Presented "Motility of Being: How Otherness Emerges Through Art and Anarchic Play” at the12th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT).

Presented “Celebrating Bachelard’s Pyromenon Through the Practice of Good Fire, an Anarchic Ceramic Experience” along with Tim Freeman at the12th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT).

Forthcoming Book Publication: Politics and Heidegger’s Concept of Thinking in Contemporary Art. Routledge. September 2021

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Published "The Subject and Object in Knowledge and Understanding" (Article 3488) in the online journal Academia Letters.

Appointed: Instructor of Art at Clovis Community College, New Mexico

Conference Presentation: “The First Female Engineer at General Motor’s Descent into Alzheimer’s with Sundowners: A Daughter’s Scholarly Research and Case Study as Caregiver” at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC).

Presented lecture entitled: "Bread Philosophy: Forgotten Justices in Situating Scott Nearing" as part of the 2021 Speaker Series at the Good Life Center in Harborside, ME.

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Conference Presentation: "Georgia O’Keeffe and Martin Heidegger: On the way to Dwelling in the Threshold" at the American Society for Aesthetics Rocky Mountain Division Conference.

Co-Curator: "Futuring the Past: Contemporary Explorations of Traditional Performance Practices in Technology" at the The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) 2021 National Conference

Symposium Co-organizer and Presenter at the Midwest Biodesign Hub Launch.

Publication: "The Clock in Profile: How Marcel Duchamp Challenged Time to Become an Artist-Philosopher" in Marcel Duchamp: inventing the Present.

Appointed: Department Head of Visual Arts at Pensacola State College.

Cover artwork and illustrations are published Helen Najera Reyes book, Grandpa Lee's Stories, New Mexico to California. The book has also been nominated to the Latino International Book awards, under the young adult category.

Presented "Andrea Brustolon and Kerry James Marshall: Visualization of Blackness" at CAA

Presented "Hair Straightening in the Hispanic Caribbean: Race, Commodification, Neurosis, and Passing Mestizidad" at CAA

Named "Adjunct of Year" for Rowand College of South Jersey

Awarded the 2021 California Arts Council Administrator of Color Fellowship

Appointed the Chairperson for the Diversity and Inclusion Committee for AES (Audio Engineering Society).

Publication: “BEAVER: The Exhibition” in "An Otherness Both Repellant and Repelled, a Deep Well of Memory That is Unapproachable and Intimate" (a series of images produced in dialogue with Julia Kristeva's Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection)signed by Naomi Elena Ramirez.

Presented “The Conjuring Visual Intermediaries: African-Derived Spiritual Practices In Visual Art” at Kosanba: The Scholarly Association for the Study of Haitian Vodou Colloquium

Book Publication: Machine Anxieties of Steampunk: Contemporary Philosophy, Neo-Victorian Aesthetics, and the Future by Bloomsbury Press

Publication: Chapted titled "Stealing Culture: The Internationalization of Critical Race Theory Through the Intersection of Criminal Law and Museum Studies" in the book Critical Race Theory in the Academy, Information Age Publishing

Job Appointment: Mellon Project Director in the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department (AAADS) at Columbia University