Please contact kernelsofresistance@yahoo.com if you would like to schedule me for a virtual presentation or a book reading/signing.
Mesoamerican book tours
- Guatemala: 2026 (July). Multi-fora presentations to the Guatemalan Congress (filmed testimony), the Guatemalan press with REDSAG and Action Aid, the Secretariat for Food and Nutritional Security (SESAN), the National Agronomy School with the second year class and faculty, the Rafael Landivar University, and the national book fair FILGUA.
- Mexico: 2025 (October 7-8). Two-day seminar, including a binational roundtable on native maize biosecurity, a photography exhibit, and my book launch at the Metropolitan Autonomous University-Xochimilco with the Mexican state authorities from CIBIOGEM, the Intersecretarial Commission for the Biosecurity of Genetically Modified Organisms.
- Guatemala: 2025 (August). Multi-city book tour in Guatemala including the northern public university (CUDEP); the School of Agronomy, University of San Carlos; Q’eqchi’ territory, Xkape Koban; Fondo de Cultura Económica in Guatemala City.
California presentations
- 2026 (January 23). Launch of the Spanish translation, the Hemispheric Institute of the Americas and Human Right Studies, UC Davis.
- 2026 (January 13). Letters and Science Dean’s “Covered” series co-sponsored by the Manetti Shrem Museum and the UC Davis Shields Library.
- 2025 (September 27). “Domestication and Domestic Ingenuity.” Slow Food International with Slow Food USA, Terra Madre, Sacramento, Safe Credit Union Conference Center.
- 2025 (April 18). Sunrise Rotary Club.
- 2025 (January 23). Campus launch. Bowley Hall, co-sponsored by the Student Farm
- 2025 (January 30). “Kuleana Kernels.” University of Hawaii-Honolulu. Invited guest speaker, Department of Anthropology.
Radio interviews, films, and podcasts
- 2025 (January 13). Interview with Vicki Gonzalez on "Insight," Capradio about the book.
- 2026. "Hecho in Humboldt" documentary film directed by Elijah Montana and Leslie Ortega and produced by Mario Fedelin and Gabriel Salazar. Interview and lead narration for this documentary film about revitalization of Oaxacan milpa practices by Aquilli Metzli, an immigrant association in northern California to produce organic, non-GMO masa (maize dough).
- 2025 (July). Inaugural video podcast, REDSAG (Network for the Defense of Food Sovereignty in Guatemala).
Book clubs
- 2026 (August 19). "Summer of Resistance," Aquilli Metzli cooperative, Humboldt County, CA.