Speaking

Dr. Blalock is available to speak on a range of topics from her experiences in Education, Building Inclusive Communities, Grassroots Event Design, Diversity in Games and Gaming, and more!

You may inquire about booking speaking engagements by contacting us via email using the link at the bottom of this page.


Invited Talks

Blalock, N. (2019, October 10). Honoring the Indigenous self as enactment of sustainability. Protect the Sacred: Indigenous Land and Culture: Shannon Rivers, Nicole Blalock, & Jace Kaholokula Saplan, 3rd Annual Indigenous Peoples Days, Indigenous Sustainability: Protecting Land, Water, Human, and More than Human Kinships. Panel conducted from California State University Stanislaus Ethnic Studies Department, Turlock, California.

Blalock, N. (2018, May 19). Championing change: From industry behemoths to first time streamers. Guest Panelist. LA Valiant Girls in Gaming Summit, Los Angeles, CA.

Blalock, N. (2014, November 20). Piper v. Big Pine School District of Inyo County: Indian education and legal status in the early twentieth century. Dismantling Barriers in American Indian Education, the Indigenous Law and Policy Conference (ILPC). Lecture conducted from Michigan State University College of Law, East Lansing, MI.

Blalock, N. (2013, June 28). Current issues in Indigenous education policy & data. Brownbag presentation. Lecture conducted from College of Education, California State University, Sacramento, California.

Conference Activity

Panels Organized

2015
As Program Co-Chair, in collaboration with Cueponcaxochitl D. Moreno Sandoval, Indigenous Peoples of the Americas Special Interest Group, American Educational Research Association (AERA), Chicago, Illinois

  • Indigenous Peoples of the Americas SIG Business Meeting
  • Indigenous Students Navigating Identity, Motivation, and Epistemology in Education: A Fireside Chat (Mentoring Program)
  • Indigenous Epistemologies in the Academy: Methodological Insights for Shifting Paradigms in Research Methods and Institutional Policies
  • Schooling and Academic Performance of Indigenous Learning Communities
  • Teaching and Learning in STEAM Fields: Bridging STEM and Art in the Borderlands
  • Shifting Native Early Childhood Education: Toward Justice and Inclusive Family Engagement at the Earliest Levels of Education
  • Urban Indigenous Land-Based Pedagogies and Community Educational Design Research
  • Current Research in Indigenous Education in the Geographic North

2014
As Program Co-Chair, in collaboration with Crystal C. Moore, Indigenous Peoples of the Americas Special Interest Group, American Educational Research Association (AERA), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

  • Indigenous Peoples of the Americas SIG Business Meeting
  • Developing Your Scholar Identity: Emerging and Senior Scholars’ Fireside Chat (Mentoring Program)
  • Indigenous Education in K-12 Schools
  • Indigenous Research Best Practices
  • Examining and Applying Safety Zone Theory: Current Policies, Practices, and Experiences
  • Indigenous Higher Education-Focused Roundtable Session
  • Interrogating Whiteness in Multicultural Contexts

2013
As Graduate Student Program Assistant to Eve Tuck, SIG Program Chair, along with Crystal C. Moore, Indigenous Peoples of the Americas Special Interest Group, American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Francisco, California

  • Indigenous Peoples of the Americas SIG Business Meeting
  • Developing Your Scholar Identity: Early Career and Graduate Student Fireside Chat with Indigenous Peoples of the Americas SIG Mentors (Mentorship Program)
  • Beyond Damage-Centered Research: Native Voices and New Educational Models
  • Challenging Linguistic Poverty in Indigenous Communities: Rejuvenating Our Languages
  • Indigenous Languages in the Classroom
  • Indigenous Methodologies in Educational Research: Why it Matters
  • Indigenous Pedagogy in the Classroom
  • So Much “More Than That”: Educational Research, Self-Determination, and Indigenous Constructions of Academic Success
  • The Intergenerational nature of Indigenous Education: History, Policy, and Looking to the Future
  • Traditional STEAM: Integrating Indigenous Ways in STEM + Arts Curricula and Classrooms

2013
Visions of Space: Place and Social Justice in the Education of Indigenous Youth. Installation accepted to the 113th annual convention of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Washington, D.C. (not installed)

2012   
Settler Influences and California Indian Education. Western History Association, Denver, Colorado.

Papers Presented

Blalock, N. (2015). Program chair centennial planning. AERA SIG Executive Committee and 2016 Annual Meeting SIG Program Chairs Centennial Planning. Talk conducted from American Educational Research Association’s annual meeting, Chicago, IL.

Moreno Sandoval, C. D., & Blalock, N. (2014). Ancestral computing across disciplines: A culturally sustaining public education. Paper presented at the International Indigenous Development Research Conference (IIDRC), Auckland, Aotearoa (New Zealand).

Blalock, N., & Lopez, J. D. (2014). Towards a visual sovereignty curriculum practice: Photographic representations of cultural objects, artistic expression, and cultural literacies. Paper presented at the 113th annual convention of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Washington, D.C.

Moreno Sandoval, C. D., & Blalock, N. (2014). Ancestral computing across disciplines: A culturally sustaining public education. Paper presented at the 113th annual convention of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), Washington, D.C.

Blalock, N. (2014). 21st century sites of activism: Social media and the globalization of Indigenous movements. Paper presented at the annual convention of the American Indian Studies Association (AISA), Tempe, AZ.

Blalock, N. (2013). Understanding the impact of context in our schools: An analysis of culturally sustaining pedagogies and American Indian/Alaska Native student achievement in mathematics. Paper presented at the annual convention of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Francisco, CA.

Blalock, N. (2013). Acts of visual sovereignty: New directions for photographic archiving of cultural objects. Paper presented at the annual convention of the American Indian Studies Association (AISA), Tempe, AZ.

Blalock, N. (2012). Piper v. Big Pine School District of Inyo County: Indigenous schooling and resistance in the early twentieth century. Paper presented at the annual convention of the History of Education Society, Seattle, WA.

Blalock-Moore, N. (2012). Piper v. Big Pine School District of Inyo County: Indigenous schooling and resistance in the early twentieth century. Paper presented at the annual convention of the Western History Association, Denver, CO.

Blalock-Moore, N. (2012). Federal unenrollment impacts on scholar careers: A study on Indigenous identity in academia. Paper presented at the annual convention of the International Conference on Diversity, Vancouver, BC.

Blalock-Moore, N. (2012). Impacts of being federally unrecognized on Indigenous scholar careers. Paper presented at the annual convention of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Vancouver, BC.

Blalock-Moore, N. (2012). Survey development for measuring math formative assessment use in schools. Paper presented at the annual convention of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), Vancouver, BC.

Blalock-Moore, N. (2012). Artifact representations: Recording objects through Indigenous eyes. Paper presented at the annual convention of the International Conference on Arts & Humanities, Honolulu, HI.

Blalock-Moore, N. (2011). Teacher professional development that works: Evaluation of a teacher research academy partnership model. Paper presented at the annual convention of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), New Orleans, LA.

Chair and Discussant Roles

2015    Chair: Humanizing Research Praxis Toward Indigenous Justice: A Fireside Chat, Social Justice Action Committee, American Educational Research Association (AERA), Chicago, Illinois.

2015    Chair: Indigenous Students Navigating Identity, Motivation, and Epistemology in Education: A  Fireside Chat, Indigenous Peoples of the Americas SIG, American Educational Research Association (AERA), Chicago, Illinois.

2014    Chair: Developing Your Scholar Identity: Emerging and Senior Scholars’ Fireside Chat, Indigenous Peoples of the Americas SIG, American Educational Research Association (AERA), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

2013    Chair: Developing Your Scholar Identity: Early Career and Graduate Student Fireside Chat with  Indigenous Peoples of the Americas SIG Mentors, Indigenous Peoples of the Americas SIG, American Educational Research Association (AERA), San Francisco, California.

Campus and Departmental Talks

Blalock, N. (2015, April 1). Indigenous statistics: Analyzing quantitative data and being an activist scholar in policy. Guest Lecture. Classroom Q&A conducted from Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College for Dr. Cueponcaxochitl D Moreno Sandoval’s Decolonizing Research Methodologies Course, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.

Blalock, N. (2014, October 20). Managing your workflow. Brownbag presentation. Lecture conducted from Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College for American Educational Research Association’s Division G Graduate Students, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.

Blalock, N. (2013, May 21). Current issues in Indigenous education policy & data. Brownbag presentation. Lecture conducted from School of Education, University of California, Davis, CA.