AWARDS & HONORS
JOURNALISM
• Mexico’s International Journalism Award 2021 from the Press Club of Mexico for reporting on the Sinaloa Cartel.
• Newswomen’s Club of New York Front Page Award 2020 (Investigative Reporting across all media).
• Three National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards 2020-2021 (Investigative and Hard News).
• Steven Sotloff Memorial 2Lives Foundation Global Journalist Security (GJS) Hostile Environments scholarship 2019.
• New York Press Club Journalism Award 2017.
• Deadline Club Award finalist 2021.
• United States-Japan Foundation/Japan Society media fellow in Tokyo 2002-2003.
SCREENWRITING
• TrackingB TV Script Award finalist-winner 2022.
• Harvardwood Writers Competition Award finalist 2023 (TV pilot).
• American Zoetrope studios Screenplay Award (TV pilot) 2021 (shortlist).
• Writers Guild East MINY Writers Room finalist 2019.
• Imagine [Entertainment] Impact Content Accelerator finalist 2018 (top 1% of 4,000).
• Scriptapalooza TV Writing Prize.
PLAYWRITING
• ScreenCraft Stage Play Award finalist 2018-2019.
• Austin Film Festival Stage Play/Playwriting Award 2019 (shortlist).
• Woodward-Newman Drama Award finalist-winner 2017-2018.
• Helene Wurlitzer Foundation playwright fellow 2017
COMPETITIVE ANTHOLOGIES:
• THE BEST WOMEN’S STAGE MONOLOGUES 2021 (Publisher: Smith & Kraus).
• BEST WOMEN’S MONOLOGUES OF 2019 (Publisher: Smith & Kraus).
• SHE PERSISTED: MONOLOGUES BY WOMEN 2021 (Publisher: Applause Books).