- “Jason Collins in the American Sportscape,” Washington University (St Louis), April 11, 2014
- “Presumed Innocence: The Racial Profiling of Gun Violence” UCLA, October 30, 2013
- “Confronting the Myth of Meritocracy,” Occidental College, October 29, 2013
- “After the All-star Game: Trayvon, the NBA and the assault on Blackness.” Stony Brook University, April 25 2013
- “Race and 2012 Election,” Wright State University, November 2012
- “Race, Gender, and Hip-Hop,” University Wittenberg, November 2012
- “Race, Gender, and Sport,” University Wittenberg, November 2012
- “Slacktivism or a Virtual Movement: Race, Class, and the Quest for Transformation,” Lewis & Clark College, November 2012
- “Safe inside your World, Kill inside Ours: Urban Jungles, Dangerous Frontiers and Virtual Warfare.” Emerson College, November 2012.
- “Forging Faculty Alliances in Academia: White Women/Men and Women of Color in Dialogue,” fall 2012
- “Male Advocates for Women in the Workplace.” University of Idaho, Women’s Leadership Conference, fall 2012
- “After Artest,” Brecht Forum (NY), June 2012
- “A Diasporic Game: From Yao to Jeremy Lin.” Invited Classroom Lecture at National Chung Cheng University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, ROC, 2010
Dr. David J Leonard 