✦ American Sociological Association Annual Conference—August 2023 “COVID-19, Communities of Fate, and Care Penalties among Community Outreach Workers in California’s Central Valley,” Van Natta, Meredith, Andres Arias, Maria Escobar, Nataly Contreras Quezada.

✦ American Sociological Association Annual Conference—August 2022 “Second Class Care: How U.S. immigration policies stratify biological citizenship for ‘unqualified’ immigrants with cancer”

✦ American Sociological Association Annual Conference—August 20200 “Fears Beyond the Virus: How community workers address noncitizens’ COVID-19 challenges in California’s Central Valley,” Maria Andrea Escobar, Andres Arias, Nataly Contreras, Meredith Van Natta

✦ Law & Society Association Annual Meeting – July 2022 "Medical Legal Consciousness: Resisting ‘public charge’ intimidation of Latinx non-citizens in the U.S. healthcare safety net"

✦ American Sociological Association Annual Meeting – August 2021 “‘No Safe Zones:’ Immigrant Health and Medical Legal Violence in the Nuevo South” (presented virtually)

✦ Society for the Social Studies of Science/European Association for the Study of Science and Technology Annual Meeting – August 2020 “DNA, Citizenship, and the Biometric Governance of Migration in the U.S.,” Meredith Van Natta and Nita Farahany (presented virtually)

✦ American Sociological Association Annual Meeting – August 2020 “Navigating Public Charge and Immigrant Health in the Crimmigration Age” (presented virtually)

✦ Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting – August 2020 “DNA and Biometrics in U.S. Immigration Policy,” Meredith Van Natta and Nita Farahany (accepted but cancelled due to pandemic)

✦ Law & Society Association Annual Meeting – May 2020 “DNA, Biometrics, and Immigration: Examining the legal landscape of contemporary biometric migrant surveillance in the U.S.,” Meredith Van Natta and Nita Farahany (presented virtually)

✦ Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting – August 2019 “States of Exception: The Biopolitics of (Non)Citizenship in the Contemporary United States”

✦ American Sociological Association Annual Meeting – August 2019 “‘When it’s an emergency, we take that risk’: biopolitical passage points and U.S. immigrant health"

✦ Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting – August 2019 “Public Disability Benefits as Harm Reduction: Income as Part of Complex Care Management”, Ariana Thompson-Lastad, Mark D. Fleming, Meredith Van Natta, Sara Rubin, Nancy J. Burke, Irene H. Yen, and Janet K. Shim

✦ Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting – August 2019 “Health In/Justice: Biopolitical Ecologies of Space, Health, and Healing in San Francisco”, Laura Mamo, Adrienne Hall, Susan Miller, Melissa Hagan, Meredith Van Natta, Leslie Dubbin

✦ American Public Health Association Annual Meeting – November 2018 "Risky Bodies: How political uncertainty is shaping the health of undocumented immigrants in the U.S."

✦ University of California San Francisco Health Disparities Research Symposium – October 2018Poster presentation: “Negotiating Risk in Coral County: How political uncertainty shapes immigrants' health decisions”

✦ American Sociological Association Annual Meeting – August 2018 “Stratified Citizenship, Stratified Health: Examining Latinx Legal Status in the U.S. Safety Net,” Meredith Van Natta, Nancy J. Burke, Mark Fleming, Christoph Hanssmann, Maryani Rasidjan, and Janet K. Shim

✦ Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting – August 2018 “Risk and Uncertainty in Coral County: How political upheaval is shaping the health of undocumented immigrants”

✦ American Sociological Association Annual Meeting – August 2018 “Complex Care and Contradictions of Choice in the Safety Net,” Meredith Van Natta, Nancy J. Burke, Sara Rubin, Mark Fleming, Ariana Thompson-Lastad, Irene H. Yen, Janet K. Shim

✦American Sociological Association Annual Meeting – August 2018 “Citizenship Status, Survey Language, and Self-assessed Health in the United States,” Meredith Van Natta and Zachary Zimmer

✦ American Sociological Association Annual Meeting – August 2017 “Like a Fish Out of Water: Managing Chronic Pain in the Urban Safety Net.” Sara Rubin, Nancy J. Burke, Meredith Van Natta, Irene H. Yen, Janet K. Shim

✦ Population Association of America Annual Conference – April 2016 “Citizenship Status and Self-rated Health in the United States: Does the association vary by ethnicity and survey language?” Meredith Van Natta and Zachary Zimmer

✦ Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting – March 2016 “Obstacles to Patient Activation in Complex Care Management,” Meredith Van Natta, Nancy J. Burke, Sara Rubin, Mark Fleming, Ariana Thompson-Lastad, Irene H. Yen, Janet K. Shim

✦ Knowledge from the Margins: Social Justice and Sustainability Conference, Michigan State University – August 2015 “’Si no de aquí, ¿de ‘ónde?: Understanding Sustainability Discourses in Andean Peru”

✦ 10th Annual Graduate Conference: “Changing Landscapes: The Intersections of Culture, Politics, and Environment in Latin America”, Stony Brook University, Latin American & Caribbean Studies Center – April 2011 “Moving Mountains: Understanding ‘Sustainability’ Discourses in Andean Peru”

✦ University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill – Health Policy October 2023, “Immigration and Health Policy”

✦ Worcester State University – Contemporary Social Problems
April 2021, “Immigration, Health, and Medical Legal Violence in the U.S.”

✦ North Carolina State University – Ethical Issues in Biotechnology
March 2021, “Biometrics & Immigration Policy”

✦ University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, School of Medicine M1/M2 Medical Spanish Course
October 2020, “El estado migratorio y la salud en los Estados Unidos”

✦ North Carolina State University – Biotechnology Ethics Course
October 2020, “Biometrics & Immigration Policy”

✦ University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, School of Medicine M3/M4 Medical Spanish Course
May 2020, “La inmigración y la salud en los Estados Unidos”

✦ University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, Migration Working Group
April 2020, “Balancing Risks: Health, Immigration, and Biopolitical Exclusion in the U.S.”

✦ Davidson College – Davidson, North Carolina – Migrants, Refugees, and the Stateless Course
April 2020, "Immigration and Health Research”

✦ Duke University, Latino Medical Student Association Workshops
February 2020 & June 2020, “Medical Spanish & Interpreting Basics”

✦ University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, Public Policy Research Methods Course
January 2020, “Qualitative Research for Policy Impact”

✦ Duke University Gender, Feminist, and Sexuality Studies 390S/890S
November 2019, “Sociological Research in a Healthcare Context”

✦ University of California – Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management Medical Anthropology Course
September 2019, “Stratified Citizenship, Stratified Health”

✦San Francisco State University: Stress, Trauma, and Resilience Lab
August 2018, “Risk and Uncertainty in Coral County: How political upheaval is shaping the health of undocumented immigrants”