Katie speaks regularly on subjects ranging from film, video, Historical Memory, twitter, blogging, comedy, political comedy, satire, Feminism, politics, Jewishness, Spanish History and more at universities and colleges such as Wesleyan, Brown, Vassar, Stanford, NYU, The New School, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Cazenovia College; she has spoken at Netroots Nations on panels like “Funny Feminism: Joking Our Way to Gender Equality” with blogger Amanda Marcotte and writer and former Jezebel editor Anna Holmes; at The Nation Magazine Cruise; and, along with Judy Bloom and Letty Cottin Pogrebin, she spoke to Jewish ladies in Florida about why they should vote for Obama.