other presentations
Celebrating Parts with a Purpose: a closer look at body positivity
Middle & High School Lunch & Learn
Speaker at a day school in Atlanta, Georgia in 2021.
Understanding Mental Health
6, 7, 8th Grade Assemblies
Speaker for three grade-specific assemblies focusing on stress and anxiety at a day school in Bay Area, California in 2021.
Puberty and Your Powerful Body
5th Grade Assembly
Speaker for a grade-wide assembly to kick off the puberty workshop series to follow at a day school in Maryland in 2021.
Are You a Porn Genre or Are You Privileged?
Justine joined an all-BIPOC speaker lineup for a virtual summit in 2021 for sex educators, therapists, teachers, counselors, parents + caregivers who demand better sex education that centers and affirms our youth.
The Weight of Wearing Two Masks
Returning presenter for the 2020 Virtual Conference on Asian-Americans, Coronavirus, and the responsibility behind an Asian face.
Take a Triton to Class
@ UC San Diego
Virtual alumni guest speaker in the Psychology Department's Learning Sustainable Well-being course in 2020.
Pleasure > Power
Presenter at the 2020 Virtual Summit hosted by Georgetown Day School, Washington, DC.
Online Live Classes
Teacher in the 2020-2021 virtual school program in 3 courses:
Grades K-3: Boss of my Body
Grades 6-8: Periods, Puberty, and your Powerful Body
Grades 7-8: Love & Self-Worth
The Case for Porn Literacy in our Schools
Speaker at this first annual virtual conference in 2020 empowering educators for agency, care, & justice.
Teaching Sex Ed in COVID-19 Times
@ Columbia University
Virtual Panelist for the Mailman School of Public Health's Pedagogy of Sexuality Education course in 2020.
Moving Beyond the Binary
U.S. Department of Defense
Justine was invited by the Naval command NAVFAC EXWC and their Diversity Committee to commemorate Women’s Equality Day 2020 in the United States. She conducted an interactive workshop focusing on gender as a social construct, and interrogated the real impacts it has on our health and well-being. Justine also presented the ways that media and human behaviors reinforce gender norms that hold us back from achieving gender parity and thus, our potential, safety, and health.
Presenter to MBA candidates under the Office of Academic Affairs & Student Life in 2020.
Presenter on Sex Ed 101 and Sex Ed in the Digital Age in 2019 hosted by Northern California independent schools the Bay Area
Moderator of the panel discussion on vaping, legal and illegal marijuana, binge drinking, and opioids in 2019 in Manhattan, NY.
Get (Lit)erate on Porn
Presenter at the 2019 Summit hosted by Georgetown Day School in Washington, DC.
Decolonizing Beauty
Keynote speaker for the 2019 YALA Gala in Brooklyn, NY.
@ Yale School of Management
Panelist at the Yale School of Management Conference 2019 in New Haven, CT.
Raising the Standard,
Drawing the Line
All High School Assembly
Presentation to a high school in 2019 at an independent school in San Francisco, CA.
Facilitator and presenter with psychologists and school health consultants Jennifer Bryan and Rob Tuckman in 2018 in New Paltz, NY
@ Caveat NYC
It's academia's best teachers and NYC's funniest comedians together on stage, trying to out class clown the others. This comedy show in 2018 out of a Lower East Side comedy club has Justine answering all the questions your health teacher wouldn't.
New York Interschool Association
Moderator of a panel discussion which included sexuality educator Al Vernacchio for K-12 NYC independent school parents in 2018 in Manhattan, NY
How Gender Limits Us
9-10th Grade Assembly
Speaker to a high school in 2018 at an independent school in Atlanta, GA.
Consent: Safety, Fulfillment, Pleasure
All HS Assembly
Presentation in 2018 to an all boys school in Manhattan, NY
Sex Ed from School to Home
Parent Presentation
Speaker to parents in 2018 at a school in San Francisco, CA
@ Harvard Graduate School of Education
Panelist with Robert Kraft moderated by Richard Weissbourd in a 2017 Askwith Forum in Cambridge, MA
Speaker to educators of the National Association of Independent Schools in 2017 in Anaheim, CA
Your #Authentic Self
8th Grade Assembly
Presentation to 8th graders in 2017 at a public school in Manhattan, NY
Porn Literacy
11th Grade Class
Presentation to 11th graders in 2017 at an International School in Los Angeles, CA
NYC Parents in Action
Panelist in a 2016 event for NYC parents in Manhattan, NY
@ Phillips Academy Andover
Speaker and panelist in 2016 in Andover, MA
Gender Equity & Justice
Faculty Professional Development
Panelist in a 2016 NYC Independent School event in Manhattan, NY
Supporting Trans Youth in Schools
Independent School Nurse Association
Moderator for a panel discussion which included Benny Vasquez and Eli Green in a 2015 event in Manhattan, NY
Filipino-American Professionals
International Filipino Association
Panelist in a 2015 event at
New York University
Activist Theater since 2016
Co-creator, producer, and performer in the all-Filipina production of original storytelling benefitting Roots of Health, an NGO providing free reproductive clinical and educational services in the Philippines that Justine serves as Vice President of the Board
@ Asian Institute of Management
Visiting researcher presenting her qualitative study on sex education curricula in 2011 with former Philippine Secretaries of Health Esperanza Cabral and Alberto Romualdez in attendance in Makati, Philippines
