* Featured Speaker – Society of Childrens Book Writers and Illustrators Annual Fall Conference, 2011
* Grand Valley Celebrate Literacy Conference
* Michigan Reading Association Annual Conference
* Michigan Reading Association Summer Conference
* MRA Preconference Luncheon presentation
* Michigan Library Association 2007 Spring Institute
* ITEC Semiannual Student Teacher Fire-up
* Michigan Association for Media in Education Annual Conference
* Calvin Young Author’s Festival
* Writing, It’s Elementary! Hope College
* 2006 Childhood Development Conference Aquinas College
* Michigan Social Studies Conference, Lansing
* SoWeMi Educator’s Conference, Kalamazoo
* L.A.P.S. Annual Conference
* WGVU’s Cool Teacher Banquet, Keynote Speaker
* Celebration of the Book 2006 Conference, Grand Rapids Public Library
* Macomb Intermediate Schools’ Summer Conference

Past Conferences Attended

* Book Expo America 2005, Chicago, IL
* SCBWI Summer Conference, 2006 L.A., CA
* SCBWI-MI Fall Conference 2009
* SCBWI-MI Spring Conference 2010