Professional Inquiries
Speaking, teaching, and institutional work.
I am a Public Home Economist whose work brings together practical teaching, lived household practice, research, scholarship, cultural and historical interpretation, and the knowledge of everyday life.
Email hello@danitaplatt.comProfessional and institutional engagements
Inquiries may include work with universities, museums, nonprofits, conferences, libraries, professional associations, media organizations, cultural institutions, and related organizations.
- Speaking
- Teaching and workshops
- Panels
- Consulting
- Institutional partnerships
- Media and expert participation
Speaking and media appearances
Keynote and conference speaking
Keynote Speaker, Rise and Climb Wellness Day, Postpartum Support International 35th Annual Conference, New Orleans, 2022
Media and expert commentary
Guest, Struggle Care, “The Color of Care Tasks with Danita Platt”
A discussion of invisible labor, Black women’s domestic labor, the history of care work in the United States, and contemporary household expectations and care tasks.
Areas of conversation and inquiry
These broad areas can inform speaking, workshops, panels, or audience-specific practical education. The focus of an engagement can be developed around the audience and setting.
- Home Economics for contemporary life
- Domestic labor, race, and the history of the American home
- Care work, household systems, and the myth of effortless living
- Foodways, household knowledge, and cultural memory
- Practical competence, home systems, and everyday life
Before you inquire
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