Sankofa Waters has been invited as a keynote speaker, presenter and community discussant at several institutions around the country including Chicago State University, Wake Forest University, Northeastern University (Boston), CUNY Queens College and the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM.) Regardless if the audience is 200+ or 15, she always speaks candidly and intimately. The heart of her talks and workshops rests in her ability to create "call and response" exchanges that are textured with her lived experiences as a "college dropout", academic writing coach, family archivist, university professor, researcher, freedom dreamer, and co-conspirator of justice praxis. In this way, she invites audience members to dig into their own lived experiences and examine ways they can collectively build across communities and institutions.

Selected Interviews / Community Talks

• Pearls & Pocketbooks, Episode #9 | "Go Back and Get It." Hosted by The Grandmother Project w/ Broadway actress, producer and teaching artist, Melanie Brezill (February, 2022.)

• "What a Free Blackgirl Looks Like." Panel w/ Drs. Qiana Cutts Givens, Sheri Lewis, and Aja Reynolds. Hosted by the National Women's Studies Association (November, 2021.)

• Abolitionist Teaching and Healing w/ the Dope Black Women Collective. Drs. Yolie Sealey-Ruiz, Sherell McArthur, Gholdy Muhammad, Qiana Cutts Givens (and shoutout to Bettina Love.) Hosted by the Center of Diversity and Inclusion @University of Washington Tacoma (February, 2021.)

• The Future of the Movement w/ "Abolitionist Bishop" Patrisse Cullors. Hosted by the Center of Diversity and Inclusion @University of Washington Tacoma, (October, 2020.)