Speaking Engagements

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

February 11, 2012, (Saturday) 9am-1pm, Greater Boston PFLAG info@gbpflag.org
February 29, 2012, (Wednesday) 12pm-1pm, Ryerson University, Toronto Canada jpoole@ryerson.ca
March 6, 2012, (Tuesday) 3pm-4pm, East Side High School, Newark, NJ
March 30, 2012, (Friday) 10am-1pm, The Sexual Orientation and Gender Project at University of Albany School of Social Welfare, Opalka Gallery, Sage College, 140 New Scotland Avenue, Albany, New York
April 20, 2012-April 21, 2012 (Thursday-Friday) Infinity Diamond Club, We Are One Men’s Conference, Sheraton Imperial Hotel & Convention Center, 4700 Emperor Blvd., Durham, NC
June 7, 2012 (Thursday) Conference Plenary Children on the Edge: Cultural Dilemmas for Helping Professionals Rome, Italy
June 18-21, 2012 (Monday-Thursday) Expanding the Circle Summer LGBTQ Summer Institute California Institute for Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA http://expandingthecircle.com/
September 24, 2011, 1pm (Saturday) 1pm, Rainbow Pride Festival, Convention Center, Asbury Park, New Jersey http://www.gsrainbowpride.com/workshopspeakers.html

Previous Speaking Engagements

November 5, 2010, 9am-10:30 am (Thursday) PFLAG National Convention, Westin Hotel, Alexandria VA. http://community.pflag.org/convention
October 14-15, 2011, 9am-4pm (Friday and Saturday) Turku University, Turku Finland
September 24, 2011, 1pm (Saturday) 1pm, Rainbow Pride Festival, Convention Center, Asbury Park, New Jersey http://www.gsrainbowpride.com/workshopspeakers.html
September 20, 2011, (Tuesday) 1pm-2pm Radio Interview WCTC 1450
May 1, 2011, 1pm-5pm, (Sunday) National Association of Social Worker, New Jersey, Annual Continuing Education Conference, Trump Taj Mahal, Atlantic City, New Jersey. www.naswnj.org (Registration Required)
April 30, 2011, 8:30-5:00 pm (Saturday), Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), Regional Conference, Center City at the Club Quarters at 18th and Chestnut from 9am to 4pm.Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. www.pflag.org . (Registration Required)
April 21, 2011, 7:15, (Thursday) Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), Sparta United Methodist Church 71 Sparta Ave., Sparta, NJ 07871 (Open to Public)
April 11, 2011, (Monday) 7:00 pm, Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, (PFLAG), Princeton, George Thomas Room at Trinity Church, 33 Mercer Street, Princeton, NJ http://www.pflagprinceton.org (Open to Public)
April 8, 2011, 9:00 am-3:00 pm, Continuing Education, School of Social Work, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ https://ssw-web.rutgers.edu/ssw/ce/index.php?m=catalog&cid=922 (Registration Required)
March 11, 2011, (Friday) True Colors Workshop, University of Connecticut, Storrs Connecticut. www.ourtruecolors.org (Registration Required)
March 9, 2011, (Wednesday) 7:00 pm Jersey Shore Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) United Church of Christ of Toms River, 1681 Ridgeway Rd. (Route 571), Toms River, NJ 08757 www.plag.org (Open to Public)
March 3, 2011, (Thursday) 8:00 pm The Reconteur (bookstore), 431 Main Street, Metuchen, NJ http://raconteurbooks.com (Open to Public)
February 28, 2011, (Monday) 7pm Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), 771 Haddon Ave., Collingswood, NJ. www.pflag.org (Open to Public)
November, 14, 2010, 4pm: PFLAG Long Island, 74 Hauppauge Rd Commack NY 11725
October 16, 2010, Annual Program Meeting, Council of Social Work Education, Portland, Oregon
October 10, 2010, 3:00 pm: PFLAG NYC, Community House of St. Bartholomew's Church at 325 Park Ave. in midtown (between 50th and 51st Streets), NYC
September 20, 2010, 6:30: Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), Collingswood Public Library, 771 Haddon Avenue, Collingswood, New Jersey
September 15, 2010, 7pm: "Coming Out, Coming Home: Discussion with Mother and her Gay Son" Barnes and Noble Bookstore, 82nd Street and Bdwy, NYC.
American Family Therapy Association Annual Conference, Boulder CO; June 25, 2010
Accademia di Psicoterapia della Famiglia, Rome Italy; June 9, 2010
“HIV Prevention and Gay Youth: The Role of Parents” NASW-NJ Annual Conference, Atlantic City, NJ; May 3, 2010
Continuing Education Workshop, Rutgers University ; April 20, 2010
Coming Out, Coming Home: Helping Families Adjust to a Gay or Lesbian Child. Institute for Social Work, Tallinn University, Estonia; March 25, 2010.
The Gift of the Gay/Lesbian Child: How Families Survive and Thrive When a Child Comes Out. 13th Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work Research, New Orleans, Louisiana; January 17, 2009.
LGBT Scholarship in a Global Environment. Series Session sponsored by the Council of Social Work Education, Council of Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression, Philadelphia; November 2, 2008.
Alternative Sexualities in the Family. Stockholm Family Therapists Association, Stockholm, Sweden; May 2, 2008.
Problems of Homosexual Couples. Sexologists and Sex Therapists of Estonia, January, Tallinn Estonia; January 18, 2008.
How Lesbians and Gays Can Change Family Therapy: Estonian Sexologists and Sex Therapists Association, January, Tallinn Estonia; January, 2008.
Beyond Tolerance: How Lesbians, Gays, Bisexual, and Transgender People Can Change the World. Keynote Speaker on LGBT Day, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden; December 2007.
Assisting Families of Coming Out Gay and Lesbian Youth. Annual Continuing Education Conference, New Jersey National Association of Social Workers, Atlantic City, New Jersey; May 2007.
Parents of Lesbian and Gay Youth: Discovery and Adjustment. Eleventh Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work Research, San Francisco, California; January 2007.
A Strength-Based Family Approach to Child Protection. Presented to Estonian Child Protective Workers. Tallinn, Estonia; October & November 2007.
Family Therapy Basics (Racvere College, Tartu University, Viljandi College) Estonia; November 2007.
Troubled Children and School Violence: Assessment and Prevention: United States Embassy, Ida-Virumaa Center for Integration, Narva College (Tartu University) Narva, Estonia; November 2007
Before Jumping on that Bandwagon: A Queer Theory Critique of Same-Sex Marriage. Tenth Annual Matthew Shepard Symposium on Social Justice, Laramie, Wyoming; March 30, 2006.
Cognitive and Environmental Interventions for Gay Males. Council on Social Work Education, Annual Program Meeting, Chicago, Illinois; February 2006.
“I would die if I had to tell my Mom I was HIV-positive!”: Parental Influence, Safer Sex, and Gay Youth. Tenth Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work Research, San Antonio, Texas; January 2006.
Love, Intimacy, and Outside Sex: A Qualitative Study of Gay Male Couples. Seventh Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work Research, Washington DC; January 2003.
Comparing the Extra-Relational Sexual Agreements of Gay Male Couples. Council on Social Work Education, Annual Program Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee; February 2002.
"Mom, Dad, I'm Gay": Helping Families Resolve the Coming-Out Crisis. Council on Social Work Education, Annual Program Meeting, Dallas, Texas; March 2001.
Walls and Bridges: The Intergenerational Relationships of Coupled Gay Men and Lesbians. Fifth Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work Research, Atlanta, Georgia; January 2001.
Not Necessarily Monogamous: Understanding and Intervening in the Sexual Agreements of Gay Male Couples. Council on Social Work Education, Annual Program Meeting, New York City, New York; February 2000.