Media Appearances

  • Radio interview on #MeToo and sexual harassment on Viewpoints with Todd Van Der Heyden CJAD 800 Montreal (aired November 18, 2017)
  • TV interview on Sexual Harassment in Hollywood on CTV National News with Todd Van Der Heyden. (aired November 10, 2017)
  • Radio interview on Lord of the Flies film remake with an all-female cast on Viewpoints with Todd Van Der Heyden CJAD 800 Montreal https://soundcloud.com/cjad-viewpoints (aired September 8, 2017)
  • Radio interview on Prom on Viewpoints with Todd Van Der Heyden CJAD 800 Montreal https://soundcloud.com/cjad-viewpoints (aired May 5, 2017)
  • TV interview on Le Telejournal 22h on Radio-Canada [French language national news station] on anti-LGBT violence in the United States following the Orlando Pulse nightclub shooting (aired June 12, 2016) 
  • Radio interview on the Pope and LGBT issues on The Chris Baker Show on News Radio 1110 KFAB and iHeart Radio (aired September 22, 2015)
  • Quoted in Huffington Post article, “The universal sex appeal of OITNB’s Ruby Rose” (June 16, 2015) 
  • Radio interview on “Is being transgender as a mental disorder?” on Dr. Drew midday live with Mike Catherwood on KABC. (aired April 29, 2015)

Selected Presentations & Keynotes

Sacramento City Unified School District, April 2012 


  1. 2017, March 11. Supporting Trans and Gender-Creative Kids: Lessons from their Teachers. session at the Transforming Gender conference. University of Colorado Boulder. 
  2. 2017, January 13. Invited presenter at the CU Boulder Graduate Teacher Program Spring Conference, Setting up your course for inclusion and engagement: Lessons from feminist & queer pedagogies. Boulder, CO. (15 participants)
  3. 2016, October 27. Invited panelist to speak at the “Innovation in Education film series” film “Most LIkely to Succeed”. Boulder Valley School District: Boulder, CO.
  4. 2016, May 20. Who am I, anyway? Critical ontology, queer pedagogy, and radical love. Invited keynote speaker at the LGBTQ issues in Music Education Conferences (QMue3) at the University of Illinois. Champaign, IL.
  5. 2015, April 16. Gender, bullying, and body size: Barriers and solutions to supporting youth of all shapes and sizes. Invited plenary speaking at the National Eating Disorder Information Centre Body Image and Self Esteem conference. Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  6. November 7, 2014. Seth's Law, the FAIR Education Act and the School Success and Opportunity Act. Professional Development session for the San Luis Obispo County Office of Education Teacher Induction Program. San Luis Obispo, CA.
  7. May 17, 2014. The experiences of transgender and gender-creative youth in schools: What we can learn from their teachers. Paper presented at The Regional Meeting of the Northwest Women's Studies Association, Eugene, OR. co-authored paper with: Stafford, A. & Airton, L.
  8. April 7, 2014. The experiences of transgender and gender-creative youth in schools: What we can learn from their teachers. Paper presented at The Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Philadelphia, PA. co-authored paper with: Stafford, A. & Airton, L.
  9. April 5, 2014. Initiating and sustaining educational change: Implementing the FAIR Education Act and Seth’s Law. Poster presented at The Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Philadelphia, PA.
  10. April 3, 2014. Gender and Sexual Diversity-Inclusive Education: A National Survey of K-12 Educators. Paper presented at The Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Philadelphia, PA. Paper co-authored with: Taylor, C. & Peters, T.
  11. November 14, 2013. Supporting transgender and gender creative youth: Schools, families, and communities in action. Invited lecture for the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA.
  12. November 14, 2013. From ‘No Promo Homo’ to Social Justice 12: Constructing official ignorance/knowledge about gender and sexuality in North American Schools. Invited lecture for the Departments of Sociology and Anthropology and the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA. 
  13. July 12, 2013 Legal and educational issues impacting gender creative and transgender youth. Invited speaker at the annual Gender Spectrum Professionals’ Workshop. Berkeley, CA.  with Asaf Orr
  14. July 13, 2012 Gender, bullying, and harassment: Supporting gender creative and transgender youth in schools. Workshop presented at the annual Gender Spectrum Family Conference. Berkeley, CA. 
  15. June 4, 2013. Social Action Research and Gender Creative Youth. Paper presented at The Annual Meeting of the Association for the Research in Cultures of Young People, Victoria, BC, Canada. co-authored paper with: Pullen-Sansfaçon, A. and Manning, K.
  16. Meyer, E. J. (2013, June 2). Preparing Educators to work with Gender Creative Kids. Paper presented at The Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for the Study of Women in Education, Victoria, BC, Canada. 
  17. May 31, 2013 Understanding gender, heteronormativity, & homophobia in schools. Invited Keynote speaker at the Flanders Ministry of Education, Brussels, Belgium. 
  18. May 13, 2013 Introducing Seth’s Law and the FAIR Education Act. Speaker at the film screening of Bullied at Clark Center. Presented by the Lucia Mar Unified School District, Arroyo Grande, CA. 
  19. February 1, 2013 Introducing Seth’s Law and the FAIR Education Act. Speaker at the film screening of Bullied at Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA. Plenary session during the Asset Development Network’s It All Starts With Me anti-bullying conference. 
  20. January 25, 2013 Implementing Seth’s Law and the FAIR Education Act. Presentation to the Curriculum Council at the San Luis Obispo County Office of Education.
  21. February 23, 2012 L’identité sexuelle et du genre chez les enfants d'âge scolaire:  créer des espaces securitaires et favorables à l’intégration ». Community workshop offered to Francophone elementary educators in Montreal, QC.
  22. February 24, 2012 Supporting gender equity & diversity in early childhood settings. Invited workshop presentation to the Quebec Association of Early Childhood Educators. Montreal, QC.
  23. March 22-23, 2012 Gender, bullying, and harassment: Strategies to end sexism and homophobia in schools. Invited workshop presented to secondary educators in Scranton & Wilkes-Barre, PA hosted by the North East Pennsylvania Diversity Consortium.
  24. April 27, 2012 Gender, bullying, and harassment: Strategies to end sexism and homophobia in schools. Invited keynote speaker at the Sacramento Unified School District conference on bullying. Sacramento, CA. [videos below]
  25. May 7, 2012 Invited expert to testify on cyberbullying in Canada. Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights, Canadian Senate. [videoconference] Ottawa, ON, Canada.
  26. July 10 & 11, 2012 Preventing bullying and harassment. Workshop presented at the California Physical Education Workshop. Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.
  27. July 13, 2012 Legal and Educational Issues impacting transgender youth. Invited speaker at the annual presented by Gender Spectrum Professionals’ Workshop. Berkeley, CA. with Asaf Orr
  28. July 14, 2012 Gender, bullying, and harassment: Strategies to improve the experiences of gender creative, gender queer and transgender youth in schools. Workshop presented at the annual Gender Spectrum Family Conference. Berkeley, CA.
  29. October 1, 2011 Creating cultures of peace and inclusion in schools. Invited Keynote speaker at the “Youth and Violence: The Role of Education” conference hosted by Dawson College. Montreal, QC. [video link]