• "The Generation Connection." Invited address to faculty and students of Philadelphia University, October 8, 2009, Philadelphia, PA.

• "Polishing the Silver Market." An invited presentation at the special session, Product Development for Silver Markets. The 4th world Ageing & Generations Congress organized by the World Demographic Association, August 28-30, 2008, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland.

• Featured address at CONNECTIONS'07 World Design Congress, sponsored by the International Congress of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID) and the Industrial Design Society of America (IDSA), October 18, 2007, San Francisco, CA.

• Living Rooms: Human Factors and Industrial Design Contributions to the Home as a Health Care Venue. Presented "The Transgenerational House: Designed for All Ages and Abilities." Washington, DC. May 1-2, 2007

• 2006 Women in the Home Industries Today (WITHIT) Eduction Conference. Luncheon presentation addressing the relation between future life stage trends and the transgenerational house. Charlotte, NC. September 5, 2006.

• Keynote address at the Fair Housing Roundtable and Exhibit sponsored by The New Mexico Protection and Advocacy System, Albuquerque, NM. April 28, 2005.

• U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Keynote address, “Industrial Design Accommodations: A Transgenerational Perspective,” delivered at A Housing Challenge: Impact of an Aging Society, a regional conference on elderly housing sponsored by HUD's Buffalo Office, Region II, Syracuse, NY.

• Industrial Designers Society of America. Keynote address, “Transgenerational Design: A Promise for Equality,” delivered at Southern District Conference on Transgenerational and Disability Design, Helen, GA.

• Industrial Designers Society of America. “Views Through a Wide-angle Lens,” delivered to the 1998 National Conference on Design Education, sponsored by the the IDSA and University of California, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

• Tokyo Gas Company, Ltd. Featured speaker, "Transgenerational Design: at the Heart of It All." Delivered at The 2001 Universal Design International Symposium sponsored by the Living Design Center, Tokyo.

• Royal College of Art and the European Design Age Network (DAN). Invited lectures in England, the Netherlands, Ireland, and Finland as “the first expert in the International Guest Lecture Series by World Experts.”

• University of New Mexico. Albuquerque, NM. Annual graduate seminars on transgeneratonal design for Department of Occupational Therapy, School of Medicine.

• International Congress of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID) by NORDMØRE LOKALTV, Kristiansund, Norway. Comments and designs included in video production, Designing for the Elderly.

• 1st Universal Design Conference and Exhibition, Universal Design: Access to Daily Living sponsored by the Pratt Center for Advanced Design Research; Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design; Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Columbia University of Physicians and Surgeons. New York, NY. Invited address, “Transgenerational Design: An Emerging Design Priority,”

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