He has lectured and presented at and for Black Writers Week sponsored by the Hurston/Wright Foundation of the English Department at Virginia Commonwealth University, the Hip Hop Generation Conference in Madison, Wisconsin, the Detroit Writers Guild and the Black Business Students Association Conference in Michigan, the African Students Association Conference on Theater as Political Expression held at Smith College in Massachusetts, the International Black Writers Conference in Chicago, Illinois, the International Black Writers and Artists Association in Oakland and Los Angeles, California, the Newark Writers Collective in New Jersey, Black Writers Institute in Maryland, the Medgar Evers College Black Writers Conference in Brooklyn and the African Poetry Theatre Writers Workshop in Queens, New York and the International Children Theater Festivals in Philadelphia, the Annual Philadelphia Celebrations of Black Writing, the Charles Blockson Literary Society and Temple University's Pan-African Studies Department, where he received a Faculty Award for the development of a course on Spoken Word and Performance Artistry.