Keynotes
Dr. Bryan brings powerful keynote presentations that challenge stigma, honor lived experience, and inspire transformation. With authenticity, vulnerability, and purpose, his talks highlight the resilience of BIPOC communities, men, immigrants, and anyone whose voice has been marginalized. Each keynote is a journey toward reconnection, empowerment, and healing.
What Audiences Experience
Each presentation is crafted to not only inform, but to move. Audiences gain:
A compelling narrative rooted in personal experience and academic insight.
Greater awareness of mental health, identity, trauma & belonging.
Space for reflection, empathy, and collective healing.
A call to action—empowering attendees to participate in change.
Recent & Upcoming Keynote Events
Microaggressions Conference
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Eugene, OR
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Discussion with Congress Women Bonamici University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
What Makes These Keynotes Unique
Rooted in lived experience
Bryan speaks not only from professional training, but personal history of immigration, identity, and activism.
Storytelling + scholarship
Balancing emotional authenticity with research and theory.
Cultural resonance
Keynotes are designed with an understanding of culture, marginalization, and power.
Engaging format
Not just talks, but interactive moments that invite participation, reflection, and change.
”Thank you. that was the first time I've seen someone speak so powerfully about our community. You have no idea how much I needed someone to change that narrative.”
”You made me realize that expanding masculinities is not about taking away from who we are as men. Instead it is about letting us be more than we have been given permission to be.”
"I probably wouldn't want to have to spend all day listening to anyone... I think you are the exception. Thank you"
"Bryan is authentic, Bold, and tells truths as they are. through storytelling, he engages the audience in a way in which you feel connected to his courageous vulnerability."
DREAMless by DArien Combs & Bryan Rojas-Araúz
This documentary encapsulates the DREAMer experience in the U.S. through the eyes of a DREAMer. Bryan Ovidio Rojas-Araúz, reflects on his lifelong journey through academia in the U.S. starting at the age of 13 and the challenges, barriers and victories that have come with his academic experiences and lack of documentation. Bryan looks back at his story his process of critical consciousness building, identity development and Life Transitions. This documentary explores themes of sociopolitical development, identity development, and documentation attainment, in tribute to the 65,000 undocumented students who graduate from high school in the U.S. each year and the experience of immigrants in the U.S.
