Writer, PEN Letters: A Centenary Celebration, 2022, Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater, with Issac Fitzgerald, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Jeweler Ilham, and Meghan O’Rourke

Conversation, Guantánamo Turns Twenty: with Patricia Bronte, Marc Falloff, and Alta. L. Price, 2022, Pilson Community Books

Conversation with Ron Chernow, Mansoor Adayfi and Antonio Aiello, 2021, Greenlight Bookstore

Participant, The Future of Guantánamo Bay: Recovering the Rule of Law in the Detention  Facility and the Military Commissions, 2021, University of Pennsylvania Annenberg Public Policy Center, with Mark Fallon, Alberto Mora, Spencer Ackerman, and others

Conversation with Fatima Bhutto, Mansoor Adayfi and Antonio Aiello, 2021, Brooklyn Public Library

Panelist, Stories that Matter: Conversation with Maryam Keshavarz, Mansoor Adayfi and Antonio Aiello, 2021 Johns Hopkins University

Panalist and Speaker, Guantánamo: 20 Years After, 2021 University of Brighton, England

Panelist, Schlesinger Equity Project: Women in the Publishing Ecosystem, 2016, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, with Annette Gordon-Reed, Christopher Jackson, Jill Lepore, Anne Pasternack, and others

Panelist, Translation As/And Advocacy,” AWP, Washington DC, with Elisabeth Jaquette, Alta Price, and Aron Aji

Curator, Distinguished Authors Lecture Series, Writers Foundry at St. Joseph’s College, Brooklyn, NY

Curator and Moderator, Writing Home: Narratives of Place and Displacement in the Americas, 2016 International Festival of Art and Ideas, New Haven, CT, with Francisco Goldman, Veronica Gonzalez Peña, Emanuel Xavier

Interviewer, Conversation with Alexander Chee, Rizzoli Book, New York, NY

Panelist, Editors Round Table, New York Circle of Translators, New York, NY, with Heather Cleary, Alta Price, and Minna Proctor

Panelist, Digital Strategy as Mission Statement, AWP, Minneapolis, MN, with Jennifer Benka and Tyler Meier

Moderator, Liu Xia Tribute Reading and Conversation, Book Court, Brooklyn, NY, with Nick Flynn, Tina Chang, Ming Di, and Ken Chen

Panelist, 21st Century Art and Politics, International Festival of Art and Ideas, New Haven, CT, with Graham Sheffield, Paul Smith, and Afa Sadykhly

Panelist, Adoption Narrative: Expanding Identities and Communities, 2016 KAAN Conference in Pittsburgh, PA, with Matthew Salesses, Lynne Connor, Martha Crawford

Workshop Instructor, Adoption Narratives: Writing Workshop, 2016 KAAN Conference in Pittsburgh, PA

Moderator, The Casualties by Nick Holdstock Book Launch, The Powerhouse Arena, Brooklyn, New York, with Nick Holdstock and Danniel Schoonebeek

Reader, The Disagreement: Drugs vs. Your Mom, Culturefix, New York, NY, with Grant Ginder, Samuel Cooper, Rachel Bennett Pelz

Moderator, Conversation with James Kelman and Emmelie Prophete, PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature