Professional Speaking

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Sample clients and venues

Social Studies Coalition of Delaware
Cuban American Bar Association
National Society of Newspaper Columnists
National Council for History Education
International Association of Tour Directors and Guides
Florida Library Association
American Historical Association
Sunshine State Teaching and Learning Conference
College Board Forum
National Association of Hispanic Journalists
Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy
Florida Bar International Law Section
Queens Borough (NYC) Library
Orange County Library
Florida Association of Social Studies Supervisors
Dr. Phillips Performing Arts Center
Colegio de Abogados y Abogadas
Indigenous and Latinx Delaware Teachers Workshop
Word of South Festival of Literature and Music
Designory Advertising
NASCAR
Adsmovil
Creators Publishing
St. Cloud School District
Downtown Orlando Public Library
The Jefferson Monticello
Kennedy Space Center
National Humanities Center
Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Greater Orlando
Chicago Council on Global Affairs

Recent additions

Incapable of Genius: Limitations, Challenges, and Dangers of ChatGPT

I never Left the Classroom: Reflections on Education, Reading, and Writing

When the World Turned Upside Down: How History Helps Us Understand the Unimaginable Events of 2019-2023

Protecting Free Speech, Freedom of the Press and Academic Freedom

The Art and Craft of Column Writing

Latinos/Hispanics, Cultural Fluency, Diversity

Beyond Salsa Dancing, Sombreros, and Empanadas: Latin America's Rich Culture

Translating Hispanic/Latino Cultures

How to Best Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month

Who Is Missing at the Table? Creating an Institutional Culture of Diversity and Inclusiveness

Don Quixote in the Boardroom: Hispanic/Latino Culture, a Toolbox for Business Success

Latinos in the United States: Challenges and Opportunities in the Twenty First Century

The Art and Diplomacy of Haggling: Lessons in Cross-Cultural Communications

Our "Weaknesses" Are Our Strengths: A Closer Look at Hispanic/Latino Culture

Demographic Transformations and Latino Politics in the United States

Reaching Hispanic/Latino Consumers, Job Candidates, Donors, and Voters

Toward a Global Culture? Not Quite Yet

Ten Defining Characteristics of Hispanic Culture

Diversifying the Workplace: It Makes Business Sense and Is the Right Thing to Do

A Latino in the US Academy: Wounds and Medals from the Battlefields

Orlando, Florida, the Puerto Rican Frontier

Motivational

My Road to National Syndication

How I Reinvented Myself Into a Weekly Syndicated Columnist at age 60

I Never Left the Classroom; and You Shouldn't Either

They Are Counting on Your Ignorance. Read! Think! Disappoint Them!

The Thin Line between What We Call Success and Failure

Many People Wish they Could Sit at Your Desk. Be Grateful and Make the Best of that Opportunity

A Toolbox for Student Success

Contemporary Caribbean and Latin America

The Twenty Plagues of Contemporary Puerto Rico

Recent Changes in US-Cuba Relations

Puerto Rico Before-and-after Hurricane María

Revolutionary Cuba: A History

Sugar and Revolution: Cuba, 1952-2016

Sixteen Threads in the Labyrinth of Cuban Culture

Cuba: A History in Fifteen Photographs

Cuba in the Twenty First Century

Perplexing Puerto Rico

A Historical Perspective on Prospects for a Post-Castro Cuba

The Longest Ninety Miles: Cuban Migration to South Florida since 1959

Puerto Rico's Political Status in Historical Perspective

Puerto Rico in Forty Minutes

Ten Keys to the Caribbean

Education / Pedagogy

Reading Across the Curriculum

The Seven Deadly Sins of the Modern University

Twelve Keys to Successful Teaching / Learning

We Are in It Together: Dialogue and Collaboration between Historians and History Teachers

"C" Students, Children with ADHD, and the Class Clown: Why We Need them in Every Classroom

Let's Start from Scratch: A Blueprint for a Twenty-First-Century Model School of Education

We Need Poets More than Ever: The Critical Importance of the Arts and Humanities from Pre-K to College

What If...?: Out-of-the-box Reflections on How to Improve Our Education System

"I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I do and I understand": Visual and Participatory Methods for Teaching and Learning

Integrating Latin American and Caribbean History into the Curriculum

Windows to the Past: Using Texts, Artifacts, and Captured Moments in the Classroom

Why Did I Become a Historian?

History and Culture: Cuba, Puerto Rico

Cast in Bronze and Chiseled out of Stone: The Story of the Caribbean as Told by Its Statues

Cuba's History in Twenty-Five Artifacts

Key to the New World: Early Colonial Cuba

Three Crops that Transformed the Caribbean: Sugar, Tobacco, and Coffee

Divergent Patterns of Political Culture in the Twentieth-Century Hispanic Caribbean

In the Plantation's Own Image: Puerto Rico's First Protestant Congregations,1868-1898

Ten Historiographical Keys to the Caribbean

The American Mediterranean during the American Century

Puerto Rico in the Whirlwind of 1898: Conflict, Continuity, and Change

Life in a Male City: Women in Nineteenth-Century Havana

Caudillos, Annexationism, and the Rivalry between Empires in the Dominican Republic, 1844-1878

The Formation of Creole Cuba, 1525-1607

Geography, Will It Absolve Cuba?

Far Worse than Slaves: Emancipados in Nineteenth-Century Cuba

History Meets Literature in Latin America and the Caribbean

A History of the Caribbean in Fifteen Pictures

Beyond La Niña, La Pinta, and La Santa María: The Mental Mapping and Invention of a New World