Awards
Livingston Award, Excellence in National Reporting, Finalist 2024
Gwen Ifill Fellow, Aspen Ideas Festival: Health 2024
National Headliner Award, Special or Feature Column, 3rd Place 2024
National Institute for Health Care Management Awards, Investigative and General Reporting, Finalist 2024
Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism,
Inaugural Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Grantee 2023
Society for Features Journalism Excellence-in-Features Award, Consumer/Service Features, 1st Place 2023
Online Journalism Awards, Excellence in Audio Digital Storytelling, Finalist 2023
National Headliner Award, Special or Feature Column, 3rd Place 2023
Excellence in Craft Award Winner, Outdoor Writers Association of America, 2nd Place Newspaper 2023
Dateline Award for Excellence in Local Journalism, Magazine, Non-Breaking News, Finalist 2022
Excellence in Craft Award Winner, Outdoor Writers Association of America, 3rd Place Newspaper 2022
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Ocean Science Journalism Fellowship 2022
Falling Walls Foundation Berlin Science Week Research Grant 2021
ProPublica/Online News Association (ONA) Diversity Mentorship Program 2021
Diversity and Inclusion Scholarship for Online News Association (ONA) conference 2021
Phillip L. Graham Diversity Fund Fellowship for Investigative Reporters & Editors conference 2021
Solutions Journalism Network mentorship program, Winona LaDuke cohort 2021
SciShortform Best Shortform Science Writing, “Top Pick” Short Short (<600 words) 2021
Poynter’s NewsU scholarship program from Disabled Writers 2020
National Science Policy Network Professional Development Fund Awardee 2020
AAAS Mass Media Fellowship Finalist 2020
International Neuroethics Society Student/Postdoc Essay Contest Finalist 2018
RehabMart Scholarship Winner, one of eight selected out of over 1,400 essay submissions 2018
Graduate Student Association’s Student Group Leader of the Year 2018
Baltimore Science Slam Winner, “Most Creative Talk” by audience vote for talk on research