Speaking

I’ve taught, lectured, and presented for all of my professional life, since I first started delivering educational talks in the high huts of New Hampshire’s White Mountains at age 20. In the three decades since, I’ve spoken to groups large and small at universities, conferences, and community organisations around world, from London to Washington, Ile-Ife to Rio de Janeiro, Maine to California. As a trained educator, I love to find creative ways to engage listeners, make them curious about things they may not have considered, encourage them to think differently, and bring them into conversations.

After a long break, I’m beginning to take speaking engagements again. I gave a talk at The Garden Museum in London in November 2025 on reconciling one’s love of plants with one’s knowledge of gardens’ difficult histories, which came out of my work on Botanica, my book-in-progress that will be published by Elliott & Thompson (UK) and Chelsea Green Press (US) in 2027. A related essay comes out in the January 2026 issue of Gardens Illustrated. I’m looking forward to speaking about this widely in the coming months and am happy to consider invitations.