Speaking Engagements

Shalini frequently speaks, writes and facilitates workshops across the country on topics that support diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging in design and architecture, and decolonizing pedagogy and practices. Speaking inquiry?

2023

Design Futures Student Leadership Forum

“Put Down Your Roots: Land-Based Healing & Design Practices”

UC Berkeley

“practicing the pause”

California College of the Arts

Belonging symposium

AICAD Faculty Training

faculty Mentor Facilitation

Dark Matter U

Core Retreat Facilitation

2022

Tulane School of Architecture

“Decolonizing Practice”

UC Berkeley CED

“challenging patterns of supremacy (with dark matter u)”

AIA Women’s Leadership Summit

“Exploring history of place and people through the power of design”

Living Futures

“Equity in practice”

Design Futures Student Leadership Forum

“reflecting on ruptures: embodiment and contemplative practices for liberation”

2021

Spotify

“Decolonizing design in practice”

Dark Matter University

“building self-awareness before engaging with communities”

RSA

“REDISTRIBUTING POWER THROUGH DESIGN EDUCATION”

Living Futures

“Envisioning Public Institutions as Catalysts for Equitable Resilient Communities”

2020

California College of the Arts

Decolonizing Conference

AIA Housing Knowledge Committee

“Sampler: A History of Race and Urban Development in the United States” & “LEARNING FROM HISTORY TO TAKE PERSONAL ACCOUNTABILITY”

Association of Architecture Organizations

“decolonizing design and architecture”

Association for Community Design

“POWER OF THE PAUSE”

ADPSR

“STOP DESIGN FOR KILLING AND TORTURE”

AIA Forefront

“leading on equity”

Meeting of the Minds

“reimagining our civic institutions to support revitalization and regeneration of our cities and communities”

MakerED Convening

“fostering belonging for girls’ maker spaces”

Living Futures

“centering equity to meet the resilience challenge”

Previous Engagements

NOMA

“MAKING A DIFFERENCE: ADVANCING A PRACTICE In COMMUNITY ENGAGED DESIGN”

AIA Grassroots, National Conference

“bringing diversity and inclusion in alternative practices”

AIGA Diversity + Design

Thought leader

Design Futures Student Leadership Forum

faculty, 2016-2019, 2022

Association for Community Design

“leading with diversity and equity in public interest design & architecture”

Speaking Engagements

2023

Design Futures Student Leadership Forum

“Put Down Your Roots: Land-Based Healing & Design Practices”

UC Berkeley

“practicing the pause”

California College of the Arts

Belonging symposium

AICAD Faculty Training

faculty Mentor Facilitation

Dark Matter U

Core Retreat Facilitation

2022

Tulane School of Architecture

“Decolonizing Practice”

UC Berkeley CED

“challenging patterns of supremacy (with dark matter u)”

AIA Women’s Leadership Summit

“Exploring history of place and people through the power of design”

Living Futures

“Equity in practice”

Design Futures Student Leadership Forum

“reflecting on ruptures: embodiment and contemplative practices for liberation”

2021

Spotify

“Decolonizing design in practice”

Dark Matter University

“building self-awareness before engaging with communities”

RSA

“REDISTRIBUTING POWER THROUGH DESIGN EDUCATION”

Living Futures

“Envisioning Public Institutions as Catalysts for Equitable Resilient Communities”

2020

California College of the Arts

Decolonizing Conference

AIA Housing Knowledge Committee

“Sampler: A History of Race and Urban Development in the United States” & “LEARNING FROM HISTORY TO TAKE PERSONAL ACCOUNTABILITY”

Association of Architecture Organizations

“decolonizing design and architecture”

Association for Community Design

“POWER OF THE PAUSE”

ADPSR

“STOP DESIGN FOR KILLING AND TORTURE”

AIA Forefront

“leading on equity”

Meeting of the Minds

“reimagining our civic institutions to support revitalization and regeneration of our cities and communities”

MakerED Convening

“fostering belonging for girls’ maker spaces”

Living Futures

“centering equity to meet the resilience challenge”

Previous Engagements

NOMA

“MAKING A DIFFERENCE: ADVANCING A PRACTICE In COMMUNITY ENGAGED DESIGN”

AIA Grassroots, National Conference

“bringing diversity and inclusion in alternative practices”

AIGA Diversity + Design

Thought leader

Design Futures Student Leadership Forum

faculty, 2016-2019, 2022

Association for Community Design

“leading with diversity and equity in public interest design & architecture”

AIA Silicon Valley

“Making a difference: advancing a community design practice”

SF Design Week

“co-creating in community, with community”

Leaderspring Center

“advancing equity in design thinking”

Creative Placemaking Conference

“inclusivity through public spaces”