Select Speaking Highlights
2021
Abercombie & Fitch
I&D Month
(featured speaker)
2020
Guidewire
Pride Panel
(featured speaker)
2019
Women in Our World Summit (W.OW.)
Marymount School of New York
(featured speaker)
November 23, 2019
OPEN Finance
Ernst & Young
OPEN Finance Women+ invites lesbian, bi and trans women and their allies to an interactive evening focused on fashion and finance.
Fashion & Finance will kick off with featured guest speaker, Anita Dolce Vita, Editor in Chief of DapperQ, followed by a panel of successful LBT women working in financial services to discuss themes of professional attire, and how to incorporate gender and queer expression in the workplace.
Fashion & Finance Panel
Anita Dolce Vita | Moderator | Editor in Chief | DapperQ
Rosanna Delia | Panelist | Managing Director | EY
Lale Topcuoglu | Panelist | Senior Fund Manager & Head of Credit | JOHMC
Billie Grace Ward | Panelist | Vice President | Two Sigma
Andrea Marshall | Panelist | Executive Director | JPMorgan Chase
September 27, 2019
Queer Style as Visual Activism
Airbnb
(moderator | executive producer)
June 28, 2019
Dressing the Part: Queer Fashion Fireside Chat
McCann
(featured speaker)
June 19, 2019
South by Southwest (SXSW), Austin, TX
Blurred Lines: Beauty in a Gender-Fluid World
ft Estée Lauder
(moderator / curator)
South by Southwest (SXSW),
Austin, TX
RIP Lesbian Bars
(panelist)
2018
W Hotels
What She Said -
Global Speaker Series
Featured speaker
June 21, 2018
SpeakOut
Stories of Pride
Featured speaker
June 20, 2018
Estée Lauder
Blurred Lines
Advised internal employees on future of queer fashion and beauty
(speaker)
May 10, 2018
Oberlin College
My Name Is My Own: Queer Style as Visual Activism
(lecturer)
February 17, 2018
2017
Ogilvy & Mather
The Role of Allyship in LGBTQ Media Today ft Grace Donnelly, Reporter at Fortune, Mark Lane, Director of Corporate Communications at Barclays and head of Spectrum (Barclays’ LGBTQ professional network), Matt Tumminello, founder and president of Target 10, and Anita Dolce Vita, founder of dapperQ (speaker)
July 26, 2017
Brooklyn Museum
HBO Suited documentary screening & panel discussion (moderator)
January 7, 2017
Museum of the City of New York
Ungendering Fashion
(moderator)
January 12, 2017 6:30pm
ClexaCon Media & Entertainment Convention for LGBTQ Women
Bally's & Paris hotels, Las Vegas (moderator and panelist)
March 3-5, 2017
South by Southwest (SXSW), Austin, TX
Selling OUT: Anti-Oppressive Queer Style Marketing (moderator)
March 12, 2017
New York Department of Mental Health & Hygiene Women's Health Activism Summit, New York (speaker)
March 18, 2017
Pace University: A Night of Noise, New York
(speaker)
April 17, 2017
2016
South by Southwest (SXSW), Austin, TX
Queer Style as Visual Activism (moderator)
Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
iD queer fashion event
Boston Fashion Week (speaker)
HBO Headquarters
Private premiere screening of HBO Suited documentary + panel discussion with director (moderator)
Brooklyn Historical Society
Redefined & Redesigned: Defying Gender Norms in Fashion (moderator)
2015
Mashable
Queer Fashion Is Not a Trend for People to Co-opt (media commentator)
Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
VERGE queer fashion event (speaker)
Brooklyn Museum
Community Talk & Reflection: On dapperQ's (un)Heeled fashion show (moderator)
Huffington Post Live
VERGE queer fashion show
(media commentator)
Refinery29 Headquarters
Peopleswear Gender Fashion Roundtable by Refinery29
(panelist)
Huffington Post Live
Queer Fashion Week
(media commentator)
Huffington Post Live
Butch/Femme Dynamics
(media commentator)
Refinery29 Headquarters
Sewing Success presented by StartOut
Panelist
2014
Huffington Post Live
(un)Heeled fashion event
(media commentator)
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center: TELL, New York (speaker) November 1, 2014
2013
Huffington Post Live
Too Pretty to Be Gay
(media commentator)
2012
Daily Beast
Fashion's Ground Breaking Gender Benders
(media commentator)
