December 2022

Debbie Levitt invited Mei to provide their perspective on the user experience as a queer and trans person and provide insight into how we can do better to make our designs and research inclusive of everyone in our user base. Her book, which contains excepts of her interview, was published in December 2022.

November 2022

The Patagonia LGBTQ+ Community requested Mei facilitate a healing session to help the internal queer community process the Colorado Springs shooting in Club Q in late November 2022. Mei gathered together research on leading a group therapy grieving space and held an hour-long online session with over 60 community members.

March 2022

Make It Happen with Havana is a podcast on creativity, productivity, and career by comic artist, illustrator, content creator, and UX Designer Havana Nguyen. In this episode, Mei and Havana discussed gender identity and why it's important to explore your gender and expression no matter who you are.

June - July 2021

SuperFriendly is a specialist group that helps you make better digital products with design systems. Over the months of June and July Mei gave in-network presentations on queerness, connecting inclusion to design, and building diverse relationships with intentionality.

June 2021

LTUX ATL is celebrating Pride Month in June with a panel discussion on how we can make products and teams more inclusive of gender and sexual minorities. Listen to LGBTQ UXers speak on the topic and dig in deep on how we as designers can break our work free from heteronormativity.

May 2021

Mei organized a four hour section about intersectional diversity for Delta CX's international Concentric Conference. Their section included a presentation on the basics of gender and sexuality, a panel on race, an introduction to neurodiversity and mental health, and finally an open discussion on intersectional diversity. Videos of their presentations are available on the Delta CX YouTube.

Oct 2020

Mei was a featured speaker for Students of UX (SOUX) on inclusion of LGBTQ+ individuals in the UX field. The presentation discussed the basics of gender and queer identity, and broke down how diversity can be recognized and represented in UX systems. In total, over 50 members of the SOUX community came to the virtual event and following Q&A. 

May 2020

After a controversial discussion on gender inclusion in Mei's graduate program, Mei stepped up to the plate to educate the Global Policy School (GPS) community on the intersection of gender issues and transgender identity. They organized and presented their gender identity dialogue to over 40 students, faculty, and staff of UC San Diego.

Nov 2019

With the Global Policy School’s QuIRPS team, Mei helped to organize and facilitate UC San Diego's Pride and Policy event, which brought leaders from all different levels of government together to discuss their experience as queer people in policy fields. As a moderator, Mei lead the discussion with the panelists as well as coordinating questions from audience, which contained over 70 students, faculty, and staff members.