• Interview with the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile university newspaper on August 19, 2008.Published August 27th at: http://www.uc.cl/comunicaciones/site/artic/20080827/pags/20080827172048.php
• Assessment of master plan for the proposed historic district of San Felipe, Aconcagua Region, Chile, August 21, 2008.
• Geography and tourism curriculum reviewer (pro-bono), Universidad de Panamá, Coclé, Penomoné, Panamá, December 2007.
• Magazine interview with Grame Woods, December 2007 and January 20Q08, The Atlantic Monthly, on historic preservation in Havana. Quoted in the April 2008 o Newspaper interview with Michael Martínez, Chicago Tribune, on pollution in the Luyanó River in Havana, Cuba, September 13, 2007, published In Cuba, a hard river to clean, But construction lags on a 'devil of a mess' in Havana, By Michael Martínez, Tribune correspondent, September 25 2007. The complete article can be viewed at: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ chi-river_martinezsep25,1,978900.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-utl.
• Test proctor, Northern Virginia Community College, for Blacksburg-based students taking distance-learning courses, Summer, 2007.
• Interview with Patrick Winn, Air Force Times, on Ecuador’s recent decision to exclude U.S. Coast Guard forces from drug interdiction in Ecuadorian waters, July 17, 2007, published July 30, 2007 “Ecuador to evict anti-drug operation.” o Volunteer worker, YMCA Food & Wine Benefit Auction, June 1, 2007.
• Magee Women’s Hospital, Pittsburgh, breast-cancer research fund contributor. Raised over $8,500 riding the 100-mile Mountains of Misery Ride, Newport, VA, May 27, 2007 and May 24, 2008.
• Interview with the Des Moines Register about campus shootings at Iowa (1990) and Virginia Tech (2007), April 16, 2007
• Too little, too late: Bush’s Latin America policy. Op-ed column, March 15, 2007, Albuquerque Journal, The Spectrum & Daily News (Utah), and other U.S. dailies. o Speaking ill of the homeland, comrade! February 22, 2007. The Cleburne News (Alabama), http://www.cleburnenews.com/opinion/2007/cn-guest-0222-0-7b22l0953.htm
• Talk, A Multicultural view of the Latin American City, Tertulia session, Delta Sigma Pi, Hispania Studies Honorary Association, October 19, 2006, Virginia Tech.
• Interview with Carole Moore, writer, National Trust for Historic Preservation magazine, Preservation, about the Trust’s 40-year track record, October 13, 2006.
• Simultaneous translation for Macrina Cárdenas de Alarcón, Mexican laborer organizer, Virginia Tech Graduate Life Center, October 12, 2006.
• Talk on “Cuba’s Technology Landscapes: Peril or Promise?” delivered at Virginia Tech’s Science & Technology Studies Annual Meet & Greet Event, September 9, 2006.
• Talk on Plazas and Barrios presented at the Henry H. Wiss Center for Theory and History of Art and Architecture, College of Architecture and Urban Studies, Virginia Tech, September 6, 2006.
• Background interview with Miami Herald staff writer Doug Hanks on possible post-Castro development scenarios, August 4, 2006.
• Op-ed piece written for and circulated by the American Geographical Society’s ‘Writers Circle,” titled “Reading (about Cuba) is Fundamental, July 2006. Published in The Birmingham News (7/23/06) and reprinted in Ubique: Notes from the American Geographical Society, Vol XXVI, No. 2, page 3, September 2006.
• TV interview on historic preservation and urban planning issues in Latin America, Channel 12, Montevideo, Uruguay, Canal 12 Techos. Uruguay, June 1, 2006
• Newspaper interview, El País, on historic preservation and urban planning issues in Latin America, June 1, 2006.
• Participant and donor of artwork, YMCA, Earthworks, International Art Exhibition, Squires Student Center, Virginia Tech, April 17-19, 2006
• Guest lecture, UAP 2014, VT, Prof. Sonia Hirt’s class, “Socialist housing in Cuba,” March 27, 2006
• Newspaper Interview, Mike Clary, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, March 3, 2006, on historic preservation in Old Havana, Cuba.
• Talk on water and waste conditions in Verón, Dominican Republic, before the Virginia Tech chapter of the nongovernmental organization Engineers Without Borders, about possible collaboration in mounting a waste treatment facility, December 7, 2005
• Virginia Tech Performing Arts, actor, role of “Veteran” in Sleepwalkers, by J. Cortiñas. Performed Nov. 2-4, 2005, Blacksburg, Virginia Tech Performing Arts Building
• Three poster presentations at Virginia Tech’s Outreach NOW -- A Forum on the Scholarship of Outreach, Wed. Sept. 28, 2005. Urban Health Centers in a Dominican Shantytown (with Korine Kolivras); Community Forestry and Non-Traditional Forest Products in the Bolivian Amazon Basin (with Tom Hammett); and Land Use in the Squatter Settlement of Verón, Dominican Republic (with William Galloway)
• Radio interview, June 6, 2005, WVTF-FM, Public radio interview on Virginia Tech’s Caribbean initiative in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic.
• Cuba Action Day, Speaker along with four U.S. congressmen, April 27, 2005. Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C. On academic travel to Cuba.
• Interview with Panamá América newspaper, April 12, 2005, Panama City, on historic preservation and gentrification in Latin America
• Radio Interview, University of Panama Radio, April 12, 2005, on historic preservation and gentrification in Latin America.
• Talk, in Spanish, at the Tertulia Hispánica, Sigma Delta Pi meeting on Cuba, Cranwell International Center, Virginia Tech, November 16, 2004.
• Interview with Havana-based reporter for the Dallas Morning News, September 30, 2004, on property claims in a post-Castro Cuba.
• Talk, Civil Society and Human Rights in Cuba. Science and Technology Studies, Virginia Tech, March 23, 2004.
• Interview with Sonia Pérez of CondeNest Magazine on the Cuban economy and self-employed workers in Cuba. Scheduled for April 2003
• Coordinator, Led Virginia Tech’s third annual “Cuba’s Built Heritage” trip to Havana, Trinidad, and Santa Clara Cuba, March 2003.
• Academic Scholar in Residence. Delivered a series of five lectures to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art while in Cuba, February 2003.
• Academic Scholar in Residence. Delivered a series of five lectures to the Corcoran Art Gallery while in Cuba, January 2003.
• Interview, The Miami Herald, on Cuba’s economy, November 11, 2002.
• Talk on Cuban civil society presented before the Montgomery County League of Women Voters, May 6, 2002, Blacksburg, VA, Red Lion Inn.
• Talk on the globalization of heritage tourism, February 22, at a series of lectures on the Globalization of Culture, Montgomery County Regional Library, Blacksburg, VA
• Recorded five Spanish-language domestic violence radio spots, with Ellen Plummer, Women's Resource Center at Virginia Tech, for the Women's Resource Center of the New River Valley, for radio stations in Radford, Pulaski, Galax, and Martinsville, May 2001.
• Oral History Project Coordinator of African-American Alumni of the Christiansburg Institute. Coordinated 10 oral histories for the archives of the Institute and the Special Collections section of Newman Library, Virginia Tech, Spring, 2001.
• Newspaper interview and quote, Florida Sun-Sentinel, article written by C. Bauza on historic preservation in Old Havana. March 23, 2001.
• Academic Scholar accompanying the World Affairs Council of Los Angeles, November 1-12, 2001, five cities in Cuba.
• Biotechnology and collaborative research trip, Ministry of Public Health, Havana Cuba, and Virginia Tech, with Professor Bill Velander (Chemical Engineering, Virginia Tech) on the possibilities of processing factor-8 protein from transgenic pigs for the treatment of hemophiliacs, and the creation of a nonprofit organization to handle such processing. April, 2000.
• Leader of historic preservation trip to Cuba, with members of the National Trust, Savannah, and New Orleans Historic Preservation Societies, April, 2000.
• Radio Interview, Virginia Radio Network, December 13, 1999, on the Cuban-U.S. differences in immigration policy regarding the rafter Elián González.
• Television interview, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, December 7, 1999, on the U.S. trade embargo and implications of a Canadian pharmaceutical company trying to sell a product in the United States that was made with Cuban raw materials.
• Radio interview, CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation), November 20, 1999, on the privatization of health-care facilities in Edmonton, Canada.
• Radio interview, WABC Radio, New York City, On direct weekly flights from JFK airport to Havana on LACSA airlines, November 8, 1999. Distributed to national affiliates.
• Radio interview, Radio Rebelde, On comparative strategies of historic preservation in Latin America, Broadcast October 17, 1999, Cuba.
• Interpreter, Maiday Ramírez, Guatemalan Center for Human Rights, Talk presented at Squires Student Center, Virginia Tech, October 7, 1999.
• Eight Lectures to 425 sophomores at Mt. Lebanon High School, Pittsburgh, PA, June 1 and 2, 1999, on Cuban socialism and globalization. Part of Distinguished Alumni Speaker's Series.
• Newspaper interview, Mt. Lebanon Magazine, June 2, 1999. On forming a Distinguished Alumni Organization to promote scholarships for students interested in international studies. Published October 1999, pp. 61-62.
• Newspaper interview and quote on transportation and energy problems in Cuba, "Cuba Humps Through a Crisis / Masses make do with `camel' bus," Justin Pritchard, San Francisco Chronicle, May 17, 1999, P A-8.
• Commentary, The Roanoke Times. People-to-people contact: Inching toward normal in U.S.-Cuba relations. April 20, 1999, page A-11.
• Magazine interview, Chandler Burr, on historic preservation in Cuba. Capitalism: Cuban Style, Fortune, March 1, 1999, pp. 72-75.
• Magazine Interview, John Oseid. CondeNest Magazine, March 16, 1999. Background interview on historic preservation in Havana, Cuba, for July 1999 publication.
• Volunteer,  Track coach (relays), Blacksburg Middle School, March-April, 1999.
• Radio Interview, Marisol Cruz, Virginia Radio Network, on changes in U.S. foreign policy towards Cuba, January 7, 1999. Aired January 19, 1999 on WVTF and other Virginia stations.
• Newspaper interview, Mary O’Grady, Wall Street Journal, background information on Cuban trade policies, January 6, 1999.
• Talk, Blacksburg Rotary Club, December 10, 1998, on Cuban economy.
• Spanish teacher (volunteer), Margaret Beeks Elementary School, Blacksburg, VA, 1998-99
• Religious Education instructor (volunteer), Universal Unitarians of the New River Valley, 1998-99.
• Writer & Director. ‘The General and His Shadow: A One Act Play,’ Performed at the Fellowship of the Universal Unitarians of the New River Valley, 11-29-98, http://www.mfrl.org/compages/uufnrv/Shadow.html
• Interpreter, Talk by Colombian Judge María Teresa Suárez, 11/17/98, Virginia Tech.
• Background interview for CNN:Fortune Newsstand, October, 1998 on Cuban economy.
• Newspaper interview and quote, Sept. 9, 1998, Small business in Cuba, PR Newswire.
• Interview, Camagüey TV, Cuba, June 1, 1998, Universidad de Camagüey. Discussed comparative historic preservation approaches in Cuba and Latin America (national broadcast).
• Interview, National Public Radio, WVTF, Blacksburg, VA and re-broadcast over the Virginia News Network (68 affiliates), on the Pope’s visit to Cuba, January 16, 1998; Interview, Cuban cigars, January 26, 1998.
• Op-Ed Essay, Suddenly, Havana, Cuba (Inc.). Carried in the Seattle Times ("Havana finds itself in the midst of Change," January 21, 1998), Roanoke Times (January 25, 1998), Raleigh Observer (January 23, 1998) and syndicated to other national newspapers.
• Interview, El Mercurio, Cuenca, Ecuador, December 3, 1997, Cuenca apela a la UNESCO, p. 1.
• Interview, Chandler Burr, US News & World Report, 11/26/97, Cuban historic preservation.
• Trip Leader. Invited to direct a 4 day field trip to Havana, Cuba, with 18 planners from the United States, Canada, and France, following the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning meeting in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. November 9-12, 1997
• Radio interview, Voice of America (Caribbean Broadcast), on architecture and urban planning in Havana, November 5, 1997.
• Interpreter (Spanish-English) for the Secretary of the  Cuban Council of Churches, Rev. Rohde González, who gave three talks at Virginia Tech, November 2, 1997.
• Newspaper interview, Washington Post Magazine, By Stephanie Sedgewick, on Christmas traditions among Hispanics in the United States, October 1997.
• Slide show and talk, Havana: Two Faces of the Antillean Metropolis, YMCA and International Soup and Substance Talks, October 9, 1997.
• Newspaper interview, Times-Picayune (New Orleans), By Hayes Ferguson, ‘Rehabbing Havana,’ August 21, 1997, pp., A1, A8.
• Newspaper interview, The Dallas Morning News, ‘New Havana: Cuban capital renovating to attract tourists.’ June 9, 1997, Business Section, By Enrique Rangel.
• Newspaper interview, Sun-Sentinel (Ft. Lauderdale), ‘Havana forces squatters back to their provinces,’ May 22, 1997, page 17-A, By Deborah Ramírez.
• Seminar participant on how to enhance Caribbean Studies in the Commonwealth, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, April 11, 1997.
• Religious education teacher (volunteer), Universal Unitarians of the New River Valley, 1997
• Medical donation liaison between the Free Clinic of the New River Valley and the Ministry of Public Health, Cuba, July & December, 1996.
• Homeroom parent, Fifth Grade, Linkous Elementary School, Blacksburg, VA, 1996-1997.
• Religious Education Committee Member, Universal Unitarians of the New River Valley, VA, 1997
• Video premiere, Student Center, Virginia Tech, 4/28/97, Urban Design & Planning in Cuba.
• Interview, Boating Magazine. The Cuba Connection: Smugglers, boats and the best damn cigars in the world. By Neal Mathews, San Diego, March 1996, pp. 148-152.
• Interview, Richmond-Times Dispatch, Clinton puts travel restrictions on Cuba, Attack may lift Castro, February 27, 1996, page 6.
• Radio Interview, Monitor Radio - Public Radio International, On downing of civilian aircraft by Cuban MIGs, February 28, 1996.
• Religion and socialism in Cuba, Talk given to the Universal Unitarians of the New River Valley, Blacksburg, Virginia, January 18, 1996.
• Interview, The Miami Herald, Background/internal memoranda on Latin American privatization for Latin American Bureau. Conducted by Katherine Ellison, Rio de Janeiro Bureau. December 15, 18, 22, 1995.
• Interview, The Miami Herald, ‘Dollars fuel gains and inequalities in Cuba’s economy.’ By Juan Tamayo, November 27, 1995, page 1-A.
• Organizer, Photography exhibit, ‘Cuba: Politics Aside,’ Perspective Gallery, Squires Student Union, Virginia Tech, October 9-28, 1995.
• Interview, Virginia Business, May 1995, ‘PPO’d ‘ (Preferred provider organizations), by Denyse Tannebaum, pp. 59-52, passim.
• Interview (background), Scientific American, March 1995, ‘Ban that embargo: physicians advocate lifting sanctions against Cuba,’ by Gary Stix, pp. 32-33.
• Invited Talk, U.S. Health Care: Challenges for Tomorrow’s MDs. Presented to the Alpha Epsilon Delta, Virginia Tech’s Honor’s Pre-Medical Society, February 28, 1995.
• Newspaper interviews, New York Newsday. Monday, October 31, 1994, on historical preservation in Cuba.
• Radio interview, WVTV, Blacksburg, 8/15/94, on study abroad opportunities in Cuba.
• Live radio interview, WTAE-AM, Pittsburgh, 45 minutes8/23/94, on the Cuban crisis.
• Live radio interview, KCBS-AM, San Francisco, 10 minutes, 8/26/94, on Cuban crisis.
• Live radio interview, KOA-AM, Denver, 50 minutes, 8/26/94, Cuban foreign policy.
• Radio interview, WVTV, Blacksburg,  8/26/94, on Cuban crisis.
• Television interview, WSLS, local NBC affiliate, Roanoke, Virginia, August 30, 1994, on the Cuban rafters (balseros) and Cuban-U.S. foreign policy.
• Live radio interview, KCBS-AM, San Francisco, 8/31/94, Cuban-U.S. foreign policy.
• Newspaper interview, Atlanta Constitution, cited in 8/31/94 article on Cuba. Syndicated to other newspapers in Cox and New York Times newspaper chains.
• Live radio interview, WRVA-AM, Richmond, 20 minutes, on Cuban crisis, 8/31/94.
• Live radio interview, KDKA-AM, Pittsburgh, 60 minutes, 9/3/94.
• Invited talk on Cuba at opening night of art exhibit, "Cuba: Politics Aside," at Ventura College, Ventura, California, September 6, 1994. Exhibit consisted of students from Ventura College who participated in my study-abroad program in Cuba, June 3-25, 1994.
• Live radio interview, with Professor Bill Hendricks, KVEN-AM, Ventura, California, 30 minutes, about Cuba immigration crisis.
• Two talks titled "The Crisis in Cuba and The Built Environment," International Club, at the Cranwell Center, September 2, 1994 and at the Price House, Center for the Study of Science in Society, September 23, 1994, both at Virginia Tech.
• Newspaper Op-Ed essay, "Time to Trade with Cuba," Roanoke Times & World News, March 30, 1994.
• Newspaper Interview, "Chile and Cuba Study Abroad Options, Collegiate Times, 2/4/94
• Newspaper Interview, "Tech groups leads trip to Cuba," Tech Independent, 2/14/94.
• Newspaper Interview, "With Cuban visits, architects trying to tear down walls," Roanoke Times & World News Nov. 26, 1993.
• Guest Lecture, Worldwatch Seminar, VPI&SU, "The Quality of Life and NGOs in Chile and Cuba," September 30, 1993.
• Keynote Speaker, Health Care Financing in the US, Montgomery Regional Hospital, January 20, 1993.
• Discussant, The Ninth World Food Day Teleconference, VPI&SU, Oct. 16, 1992
• Volunteer Spanish teacher, Harding Avenue Elementary, Blacksburg, VA, 1990-1993.
• First Day (Sunday School) teacher, Blacksburg Friends Meeting, 1991.
• Live radio interview on President Bush's national health care proposal, on KTAR "Newstalk" Radio, Phoenix, Arizona, February 8, 1992.
• Newspaper interview on national health insurance, in "Oh, how it hurts...but we'll pay." Sam Levin, Roanoke Times & World News, Nov., 17, 1991.
• Live television interview: "The Bush Initiative for the Americas" (in Spanish) TV Megavision, Buenos Dias! Santiago, Chile, July 8, 1991.
• Radio interview, "The Role of Planning and Environmental Quality" (in Spanish) United States Information Agency, Santiago, Chile, July 1991.
• Elected Board Member, Free Clinic New River Valley, Christiansburg, VA, 1990-91.
• Newspaper interview, "El 91 por ciento de los médicos apoya creación de seguro nacional de salud," Cambio (Salto, Uruguay), 1 September, 1990, p. 4.
• Exhibitor of Chilean Weavings (arpilleras) at the Montgomery-Floyd Regional Library, June-July, 1990, with Gilda Machín.
• Panelist, The U.S. operation in Panama, VPI&SU, Feb., 1990.
• Invited speaker, National Honorary Health Education Fraternity, February 18, 1990, VPI&SU
• Article to Buscando América (February 1990, Vol. 2, No. 1), "The Real Cost of Authoritarianism in Chile." A publication of the Club Iberoamericano, Blacksburg, VA.
• Organizer of Institutional agreement between VPI&SU and University of Chile, April, 1989.
• Radio interview, "The Chilean plebiscite of October 5, 1988" WSUI-AM, Iowa City, October 4, 1988.
• VPI&SU representative at dedication of institutional gift to the Uruguayan Supreme Court, Montevideo, Uruguay, Dec.15, 1989.
• Interpreter for Alejandro Zúñiga, Chilean human-rights worker and organizer from CODEPU. Two talks (simultaneous translation), November, 1988, University of Iowa.
• Radio commentary, "Authoritarianism in Latin America," WSUI-AM, Iowa City, 10/5/88.
• Member, Johnson County (IA) Health Planning Comm., 1988-1989.
• Newspaper interview, "Geography Where it's At for U of I Professor," Cedar Rapids Gazette (Iowa), January 31, 1988.
• Radio interview, "Geographic research and the El Niño/Southern Oscillation phenomenon," WSUI-AM, Iowa City, December 8, 1987.
• Newspaper interview, "UI geographer's research interests span weather, industry, human health," University News Service, syndicated, November 15-22, 1987.
• Radio interview, "National Geography Awareness Week," 10/15/87, University of Iowa Audio Service.
• Human Rights Fact-finding Mission to Chile, Delegate, 22 October-2 November, 1987. Sponsored by the Chile Center for Education and Development, New York, NY. Report presented to the United Nations, February, 1988.
• Elected Board of Director Member, Domestic Violence Intervention Project (battered women's shelter) Iowa City, Iowa, 1987-89.
• Committee member, Peace & Social Concerns, Society of Friends, Iowa City, 1987-1989.
• Talk entitled, "The Economics of Tropical Diseases," presented to Sigma Xi, Scientific Research Society, University of Iowa, March, 1987.
• Radio interview, The World Court decisions on U.S. intervention in Nicaragua, WSUI-AM, Iowa City, Iowa, August 27, 1986.
• Newspaper interview, The Chronicle of Higher Education Vol. 30, No. 11, May 15, 1985, pp. 1, 22, "Florida Campuses Struggle to Cope with Influx of Refugees from Cuba."
• Volunteer, interpreter-translator. Committee on El Salvadoran Refugees. Plainfield, New Jersey, 1985-1986.

Coordinator, State College-Pittsburgh Bike-a-thon, Fund-raising for the American Cancer Society, State College, Pennsylvania, July, 1977