Category: Publishing and Engagement

Articles, write-ups and conferences I’ve presented at

  • The ACSA/AASA International Conference, 2026

    The ACSA/AASA International Conference, 2026

    The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia (AASA) are pleased to announce the 2026 International Conference being hosted in Brisbane, Australia. The conference will take place July 8-11, 2026. Dr Alissa de Wit-Paul and I are chugging along on the DIP project, collecting yet another international…

  • Games For Good 2025

    Games For Good 2025

    Another exciting development for our project; Digital Interactive Preservation was presented at the Games for Good Conference in Wooster MA this year! Wrapped up in a pre-Thanksgiving high, my co-PI and I had the best time at Clark University. The conference was well-organized, with great attendees bringing up the most interesting ideas and engaging in…

  • UNESCO World Heritage Conference – Shanghai, China – Oct 2025

    UNESCO World Heritage Conference – Shanghai, China – Oct 2025

    A huge win for my Digital Interactive Preservation project. My co-PI, Alissa de Wit-Paul were accepted to present at this year’s UHC-HEI Conference at Tongji University. Held by the International Network for Urban-rural Heritage Conservation in HIgher Education Institutions (UHC-HEI), it was an honor to present alongside some truly exciting researchers exploring ways to use…

  • Discussing the Campbell House

    Genesee Country Village and Museum Curator Peter Wisbey discusses the Campbell House and our Digital Interactive Preservation project!

  • Communication Strategies as a Muslim Woman

    Communication Strategies as a Muslim Woman

    Karamah is a non-profit organization of Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights. This organization was founded by a distinguished lawyer who has been an equal rights advocate for decades, and is a contemporary of Malcolm X. Through a series of connections, they invited me to speak at their winter program for young women. My talk…

  • FACSS – SciX Conference 2024

    FACSS – SciX Conference 2024

    The Great Scientific Exchange! Another wonderful experience and my first trip to North Carolina. The FACSS stands for The Federations of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies, and the SciX Conference represents the Great Scientific Exchange, a conference that has been running since 1974. This year marks the 50th year of this international conference at the…

  • Digital Preservation: Promo 2024

    Digital Preservation: Promo 2024

    Summer of 2024 is off to a great start. My project was featured in a promo video to showcase RIT’s longstanding relationship with the Genesee Country Village and Museum, which then gave me room to request an edit of the clip to help share my idea with more potential partners and funders (fingers crossed). Watch…

  • Frank J Romano Endowed Prize

    Frank J Romano Endowed Prize

    Exciting news continues! I won the Frank J Romano Endowed Prize for innovative use of technology working with students. The Digital Preservation Process has evolved into the Digital Interactive Preservation method, or DIP method. Two reasons for this: one, because the RIT CHIP Research group, led by Dr Juilee Decker and Dr David Messinger has…

  • Leadership Panelist

    Leadership experiences and preparation: Panel discussion [RIT Faculty in Leadership] This winter I was invited to join a panel of women leaders at this year’s Advance RIT Leadership Summit. By conventional wisdom, a foreign woman working as a professor of animation in a technical institute makes me quite the unlikely leader. However, in the year…

  • International Women Faculty: Together RIT Programming 2023

    RIT’s Day of Understanding Programming was established in 2022 to allow the RIT community to “engage in intentional and honest dialog about challenging issues”. As someone actively engaged in exploring ways to improve cross-cultural communication using animation and gaming, I was invited to join the panel of international women to talk about the experiences that…