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Published a letter in the New York Times on August 16, 2020, "The Moves Against the Census: A reader says the government's actions obscure accuracy and harm the country." New York Times (print and online editions). https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/16/opinion/letters/census-race.html
Interviewed for the radio show, “2020 Talks” by Pacifica Network and the Public News Service. "Earth Day” and aired April 22, 2020.
Delivered the research presentation, "Smothering Asylum: Kids, Cages, and Political Currency in Migrant Processing," at the Issues in Mental Health Policy Seminar at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City on January 29, 2020.
Presented twice at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in November: (1) first delivering a research presentation, "From OTMs (other than Mexicans) to YAMS (you're all Mexicans): Conflating Latina/o/x Migrants,” at the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, on November 14, 2019; (2) as a panelist for the Social Science Matters series, "Critical Issues for the 2020 Election Cycle: U.S. Immigration Policy,” on November 19, 2019.
Delivered the closing keynote address, "The Global Next Door: Local Engagement, Accompaniment, and New Forms of Diversity," at the American Association of Colleges and Universities conference, "Crossing Borders and Boundaries: Global Citizenship for Campus, Community, and Careers." San Antonio, Texas, October 19, 2019.
Hong, A.M. (2026) Invited Reader and Curator, “Amherst Lit Walk: Writers Reading by Anna Maria Hong, Eula Biss, James Hannaham, and John Hennessy” UMass Downtown, University of Massachusetts Amherst and Massachusetts Center for the Book, Amherst, MA, April 11, 2026. https://www.massbook.org/amherst-lit-walk
Hong, A. M. (2025) H & G, a great and terrible story, a lyric opera adapted from Anna Maria Hong’s novella, H & G, was performed at the Eastman School of Music’s Winter Voice Festival on January 30–February 2, 2025, directed by Timothy Long and Pat Diamond. Hong co-wrote the libretto with composer Allen Shawn and theater director Jean Randich.
Hong, A.M. Invited Speaker, “AAPI Sonnets.” University of Otago, Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand, January 16, 2025.
Hong, A.M. Invited Reader, Octagon Reading Series, Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand, January 15, 2025. https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/campus/american-poet-hoping-expand-creative-horizons-university-students%E2%80%99-writing
Anna Maria Hong joined the Creative Writing Advisory Board at Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism journal in August 2024. https://sites.smith.edu/meridians/
