Some award & fellowship highlights.

JOURNALISM

Pulitzer Center Mental Wellbeing in the US Fellowship, Forthcoming story about harm reduction doulas in Seattle, 2025

Society for Features Journalism, Inclusion and Representation in Features, Honorable Mention for “The Enduring Reign of El Daña, King of the Central Valley,” KQED, 2025

Society of Professional Journalists, Region 11 Mark of Excellence Awards Winner, Podcast (Narrative) for “The Enduring Reign of El Daña, King of the Central Valley,” KQED, 2025

Society of Professional Journalists, Region 11 Mark of Excellence Awards Winner, Sports Reporting (Large) for “Paddling Out With California’s Older Women Surfers,” San Diego Magazine, 2025

Society of Professional Journalists, Region 11 Mark of Excellence Awards Winner, Feature Reporting (Large) for “Counselors help seniors clean up, avoid eviction,” San Francisco Chronicle, 2025

National Center on Disability and Journalism, Third Place Gary Corocoan Student Prize for Excellence in Reporting on Disability, “Counselors help seniors clean up, avoid eviction,” San Francisco Chronicle, 2025

CUNY Newmark ‘How to Cover Aging’ Awardee, 2025

Digital Health Awards, Bronze, “Counselors help seniors clean up, avoid eviction,” San Francisco Chronicle, 2025

Pulitzer Center Campus Consortium Fellowship, Forthcoming story about how Guyana’s queer community is fighting for climate justice, 2024

Association of Health Care Journalists, Third Place Beat Reporting Award for a package of mental health solutions stories on MindSite News, 2024

Digital Health Awards, Gold, “California Program Trains Undocumented Residents to Become Therapists,” MindSite News, 2024

Society of Professional Journalists, NW Excellence in Journalism, Runner Up in Soft Feature Reporting for “The Unlikely Style Icon Teaching Older Women to be Fashion Rebels,” Narratively, 2019

Society of Professional Journalists, NW Excellence in Journalism, Runner Up in Soft Feature Reporting for “What Is Barbershop Therapy?” YES! Magazine, 2018

LITERARY

Best of the Net Nomination, “Teeth,” Glint Literary Journal, 2021

Best of 2018, “Woven: As They Walk Through the Door,” Entropy

MARKETING

Gold National Council for Marketing and Public Relations Paragon award for Promotional Video Long-Form (profile of student KaShawna Bell), 2020

Gold National Council for Marketing and Public Relations Paragon award for “Letters from the Heart.,” a 2017 PCC Foundation Annual Report