Chair Group in Architectural Pedagogy and Research for the French Ministry of Culture, member of the scientific committee, developing innovative cross-sectoral approaches to the built environment to confront the challenges of climate change. “Habitabilité sur terre : Que peut l'architecture ? - Conversation vulnérabilités” https://vimeo.com/678770082, 2022.

Urban Design Climate Workshop: Ten Years of Experiences & Methodologies, Climate-Resilient Urban Design (CRUD) project, UCCRN_edu/ERASMUS+ program of the European Union & National Science Foundation RCN grant, Paris, 2022.

Écoles d'art américaines de Fontainebleau - Beaux-Arts / Architecture, lecture, France, 2022.

Net Zero Neighborhoods – Gowanus, Brooklyn Project, Project Lead.  INSOURCE Belmont Forum: Sustainable Urbanization Global Initiative (SUGI), National Science Foundation Grant No. 1830718. Collaboration with the American Institute of Architects, as co-Chair of Planning & Urban Design Committee. LinkedIn, 2019-2022.

Interview on CTV News Channel-Canada; Design and planning strategies recommended for NYC to confront the challenge of climate change (9/2/21).  https://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=2271814

Evaluating Urban Issues of Climate Change, Barnard College – Columbia University, New York, 2021.

City of the Future: Zero carbon buildings and quarters - Case studies from Montreal, Hamburg and New York, MTL Connecte, Panelist, sponsored by Consulate of Germany, Montreal, Canada, 2021.

Reinventing World Cities – Post-Covid Cities; Global cities emerging from the pandemic while implementing social goals and 21st-century zero-carbon policies, Center for Architecture, NYC, 2021.

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine: Transportation Research Board.  Panelist for Metropolitan Planning Organization forum on resiliency in transportation, 2021.

MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Lecture and panel, Urban Planning & Urban Design - Climate Change and Cities, MIT DUSP: MIT School of Architecture + Planning, 2020.

Urban Manifesto interview, co-hosted by Lucy Bullivant (London), place strategist, author & founder of Urbanista.org and Prathima Manohar (Mumbai), founder of think-do-tank The Urban Vision, 2020.

Urbanism of the Southern China Metropolis: NYIT – Tsinghua University Symposium, panelist, 2020.

Climate Justice Panel: Leveraging Our Strengths, the American Institute of Architects, panel moderator, 2020.

Dialogue:  Heat in the City, Global Heat Health Information Network, lecture and panel moderated by Laurie Goering (Thomson Reuters). Panelists included C40 Manager of Cool Cities; Dep. Director NYC Mayor’s Office of Resiliency, leading Hong Kong developer, 2020.

Featured in AIA Blueprint for Better, a national campaign by the American Institute of Architects to bring to life the role of architects as leaders in the fight against climate change, 2020. 

MTL Connect - City of the Future, Montreal, Canada; keynote presentation, 2020.

Archtober: Challenges in Future Cities, hosted by the Consul General of Sweden in NY and Exec. Director of the van Alen Institute.  Panel from Rwanda, Kenya, UK, Canada, Sweden and the US, 2020.

Tongji University, Shanghai: Designing for Net-Zero (2019); Lecture to graduate faculty and students, College of Architecture and Urban Planning, China.

Shenzhen University School of Architecture: Sustainable and Resilient Urban Design (2019); Lecture to undergraduate and graduate faculty and students, China.

First International Urban Forum on City of Challenges: Eco-Technological Innovation, Laayoune, Western Sahara, Morocco (2019).  Lecturer and panelist on bridging climate science, policy and design practice.  The Moroccan Phosboucraa Foundation organized this international event held at the Palais des Congrès in Laayoune.  

Interview: Nature Podcast, Nature Research, Modeling hot cities: Cities are generally hotter than their surroundings, but what are the causes of these ‘heat islands’? Springer Nature, 4 Sept 2019.

Urban Design Climate Workshop for Durban, South Africa (2019).   Sessions engaged representatives from Durban in a series of urban design workshops linking quality of life, economic development, public health to local and regional climate interventions.  Sponsored by the German government Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH and the Government of Durban.

Global Practices and Policy on Urban Risk, Resilience, and Crises (2019); Lecture, Columbia University GSAPP. 

Archtober: Responsive Cities (2018), Panelist with experts from ETH Zurich, sponsored by the Consulate General of Switzerland, Parsons-New School.

AIA2018 - Project New York: Collaborative Mapping Platform (2018), Panelist with Sr. Policy Advisor - NYC Mayor’s Office of Recovery and Resilience and Exec. Director, NYC Public Design Commission.

Shaping Climate Resilient Cities through Innovative, Multi-Scale and Adaptive-Mitigation Design Methods (2018); Speaker, IAUC International Climate Conference, CUNY.

New York City Urban Design Climate Workshop (2018) at NYIT; Program Lead.  The UDCW drew from a cross-disciplinary team of global urban climate experts and leading New York City Urban Design practitioners to shape evidence-based, climate-driven intervention tools and strategies for district-scale sites, focusing on Sunnyside Yard, Queens.  

Urban Infrastructures: Food, Energy and Water for Sustainable and Resilient Cities – National Science Foundation; Speaker and steering committee member in collaboration with NYIT SoECS, 15 June at NYIT.  

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), The CitiesIPCC Cities and Climate Change Science Conference, Speaker and Convener, Urban Climate Information to Support Decision Making: From Local to Global, Edmonton, Canada, 2018.

Gowanus Technical Advisory Panel, Urban Land Institute New York, 2018.

Urban Land Institute Technical Advisory Panelist comprising leading design, planning, financial, infrastructure and sustainability experts, to configure a sustainable and resilient Gowanus district in Brooklyn, NY, 2017.

International Climate Summit, Agadir, Morocco (September 2017).  Lecturer and Workshop leader.  Joined by a panel of European and American experts. NYIT graduate student presented innovative research completed by graduate team.

Urban Transition in Face of Climate Change, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, 2017.  Co-led international workshop: Integrating Mitigation and Adaptation in Urban Planning, Urban Design and Architecture.  Sponsored by UCCRN, CNRS, Sorbonne Universités.

Climate-Resilient Urban Design: Bridging Science and Practice, Cambridge University, England, 2017.  Solo lecture, followed by workshop led by me on the intersection of urban form, climate and implementation strategies.

Climate Change in NYC, Center for Architecture, New York City, 2017.  Co-moderator/panelist and lecturer. Joined by Susanne Desroches, Dep. Director - NYC Office for Recovery & Resiliency; Cynthia Rosenzwieg - NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies; Jee Mee Kim - HR&A; and Signe Nielsen - Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects.

Climate Change and Cities, presentation at the Regional Plan Association, New York, 2017.

Design Solutions for Climate Change in Urban Areas; funded panelist and presenter, University of Naples Federico II, Italy, 2016.

Toward Developing a Blueprint for Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure, 

International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure (ICSI), invited and sponsored by the US National Science Foundation as speaker and panelist, Shenzhen, China, 2016.

Convening Design and Semiotics to Build Visual Identity for Museums and Urban Districts, panelist at the AIA New York State annual convention, Saratoga, 2016.

Socio-Semiotics and Research-Action Approach to the Visual Identity of Museums in Paris and New York, As Doctoral Thesis Juror, Raven delivered a detailed verbal and written response and exchange with the doctoral candidate and fellow jury in French, Université Paris 8, 2016.