Helen is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and has presented her films and lectured at universities, museums and churches and seminaries around the country (including Yale, Princeton, Harvard, Pomona, Claremont, Brigham Young, Stanford, the National Cathedral, the Corcoran Gallery, the Minneapolis Art Institute, Wesley Seminary, Union Theological Seminary). She delivered the freshman address twice at Flagler College. She has also presented the endowed Luce Lecture at Boston University, The Lana Schwebel Memorial Lecture in Religion and Literature at Yale, and the William Belden Noble Lectures at Harvard University.