- Book Passage Travel Writers and Photographers Conference
- Public Relations Society of America
- International Luxury Travel Market (ILTM) Africa
- Litquake
- Media Grits
- Los Angeles Travel and Adventure Show
- Bay Area Travel Writers
- Book Passage
- Weekday Wanderlust
- Wine Institute
- Left Coast Writers
- Mill Valley Public Library Travel Speaker Series
- Teaching workshops and speaking at literary events in the San Francisco Bay Area