AWARDS & HONORS

JOURNALISM

• Two National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards 2025 (Investigative Reporting and Soft News/Film) from the Los Angeles Press Club.

• Finalist for the David Robb Civil Justice Award 2025 for Best Investigative Civil Justice Story of the year (across all platforms) from the Los Angeles Press Club.

• Mexico’s National Journalism Award 2021 (Premio Nacional de Periodismo) and medal from the Press Club of Mexico for reporting on the Sinaloa Cartel and the Brooklyn trial of cartel boss Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.

• 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).