As a community scholar, I aim to regularly and accessibly share my research in Sikh community spaces through workshops, lectures, and youth-centered discussions. My community scholarship mainly addresses the legacies of colonialism embedded within practices of Sikhi and Sikh identity, particularly via white supremacy and anti-Blackness. Please do not hesitate to reach out if you need assistance or resources in having these conversations within your sangat.

Below are a few events, from most to least recent, which were recorded for public access. A full list of events can be found on my CV.

• Sikh Awareness month lecture at Benedictine University in Lisle, Illinois discussing the links between Sikhi and global citizenship, as inspired by my Bonderman Fellowship.

• A community talk hosted by the Vancouver Art Gallery on Simranpreet Anand’s exhibit “ਦਸਤਾਰ ਬੰਨ੍ਹਣ ਲਈ ਬਲੂਪ੍ਰਿੰਟ (blueprints for tying a dastaar)”, where I spoke on how visible Sikh identity has been shaped by colonial understandings of legibility, the post 9/11 U.S. imaginary, and the Kisaan Majdoor Ekta Morcha.

• The closing webinar for a six-part series hosted by the Sikh American Legal Defense Fund (SALDEF) on Sikh action for Black justice movements – Gurbani as the Guide for Sikhs in the Movement for Black Lives. My presentation focused on reorienting ourselves to Sikh frameworks for liberation and action through a reckoning with trauma rooted in Sikh ideology.

• A webinar held through the Sikh Research Institute on the Sikh concepts of bhakti (deep internal contemplation) & shakti (exuberant worldly power) and reclaiming a decolonial practice of these ideas in the modern era.

• A panel discussion hosted by UNITED SIKHS on the role Sikhs in the US must take in addressing anti-Blackness and becoming advocates for the Movement for Black Lives.

• An invited lecture through Princeton’s “Speaking of Sikhs” series on the ways Sikhs in the US & Canada are seeking entry into whiteness and the racial order through institutional belonging (primarily through positions in military, police, and government).