Truth Demands Podcast Interviews

For podcast interviews about Truth Demands, visit Abby Reyes’ Press page.

May 27, 2026

Community Resilience for Climate Action: Case Studies of Capacity Building for Community-Driven Leadership, Colloquium, Social Impacts of Geopolitics: Interventions to Strengthen Humanity Conference, National School of Social Work, National Autonomous University of México

April 21, 2026

Book discussion with Anthropologist Dr. Cari Borja, Clio’s Books, Oakland, CA

Feb. 4, 2026

Book discussion with Ecology Professor Erika Zavaleta, Global Action Workshop, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA

December 5, 2025

Comparative Politics for Public Life: Anatomy of a Community-Academic Partnership to Address the Paradox of Plenty, discussion with Political Science Professor Terry Karl, Center for Latin American Studies 60th Anniversary Conference, Stanford University

November 8, 2025

Celebrating publication of The Water Remembers by Amy Bowers Cordalis with Amy Bowers Cordalis, Point Reyes Books, Point Reyes Station, CA

October 30, 2025

Community-Academic Partnerships for Community Owned Climate Resilience Solutions, Planning Sustainable Cities class, Department of Geography, Northern Arizona University

June 21, 2025

Book talk together with journalist Jeanne Carstensen, author of A Greek Tragedy: One Day, a Deadly Shipwreck, and the Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis, Mesa Refuge Writers’ Residency Annual Garden Party, Point Reyes Station, CA

June 7, 2025

Transforming Colonialism, Extractivism, and Socio-Ecological Injustice, virtual panel with Casey Camp-Horinek, Osprey Orielle Lake, and Rae Abileah during Eternal Song film series launch

June 1, 2025

Memoir for Remembrance, book talk together with authors Eirinie Carson and Susan Lieu, Marsh Theater, Bay Area Book Festival

May 27, 2025

Book talk hosted by Muwekma-Tau-Ruk, Explore Energy, and Otero Public Service Houses, Stanford University

May 20, 2025

NYC book launch In conversation with Nicholas Thompson and Caroline Laskow, The Monroe, New York, NY

May 14, 2025

LA book launch, Village Well Books, Los Angeles, CA

May 6, 2025

Bay Area book launch in conversation with Rosa Gonzalez and Miya Yoshitani, Brower Center, Berkeley, CA

April 24, 2025

Murder, Pollution as Policy, and Two Women Who Won’t Give Up, with Ms. Margaret Gordon and Alexis Madrigal, hosted by Climate One, Commonwealth Club, San Francisco, CA

April 16, 2025

Murder, Oil Wars, and the Rise of Climate Justice, Critical Justice Initiative, Center for Civil Rights and Critical Justice, Seattle University School of Law

February 21, 2025

Decolonizing Methodologies & Reflection on Positionality, participatory session, RAISE Doctoral Fellowship Program, Stanford University

November 14, 2024
“You are Holding the Key; It’s Time to Unlock the Door:” Accompanying the Shift from Community Engagement to Ownership, Research as Praxis Speaker Series, Haas Center for Public Service, Stanford University

March 18, 2024
Community-Academic Partnerships to Advance Equity-focused Climate Action, Second Conference on Environmental Justice and Sustainability, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Doerr School of Sustainability

May 5, 2023
Community-Academic Partnerships to Advance Equity-focused Climate Action, Integrating the Human Sciences to Scale Societal Responses to Environmental Change Workshop, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

2019, 2020
Law and Social Movements: Race, Place, and Climate Change, a seminar, UCI Law

October 26, 2018
The University’s Role in a Just Transition, Feminist Social Justice Science Methods Symposium, University of California Humanities Research Institute, Feminist Collaboratory Residential Research Group

September 14, 2018
Beholden: Bringing an Oil Company to Account, a reading, Words of Wild Survival: Wombs, Wounds, Wastelands, and Water, University of California Humanities Research Institute Faculty Residency Public Conference

2017, 2018
Advanced Community Resilience Organizing, a seminar, UCI Student Affairs

June 2016
Community Engaged Sustainability Scholarship, Best Practices Award Session, California Higher Education Sustainability Conference

May 14, 2016
How to Come Home, TEDxUCIrvine

2000-2003, 2011-2018
Community-based Environmental Defense and International Solidarity Advocacy, guest lectures to various graduate, law, and undergraduate classes at UC Irvine; Stanford University, California State University, Monterey Bay; and UC Berkeley Law

June 5, 2005
Transnational Lawyers Making (Up) International Law in the Caspian, Law and Post-Coloniality in the Global South Panel, Law and Society Assn. Annual Meeting

March 12, 2004
Mobilizing Law Educators Against the War, Women Resisting War Panel, Berkeley Women’s Law Journal Symposium: Women and War

April 12, 2003
Coalition Building between International Non-Governmental Organizations and Local Peoples’ Organizations, Race, Class, and Environment Panel; Equal Justice Society Symposium, Coalitions at the Crossroads: Access to Justice