SELECTED DISCTINCTIONS
Best Short Film, Sweden Film Awards, 2025
Best Micro Short Film, Mokkho International Film Festival, India, 2025
Best Short Film Under 5 Minutes, [Story.Land] International Short Film Fest, Bulgaria, 2025
Best Debut Short Film, Sittannavasal International Film Festival, India, 2025
Official Selection, Eutopia Arthouse Film Festival, Ireland, 2025
Official Selection, New York Istanbul Short Film Festival, USA, 2025
Shortlisted, Commonwealth Short Story Prize, 2017
Award for excellence in Tuberculosis Reporting Reach Lily-MDR-TB media partnership, India 2013
Recognized as one of 25 Young Leaders under 30 by McGill University, Canada 2012
Honored as 100 Young Leaders under 30, Women Deliver, New York, NY, 2013
GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS
Project Director: Transmission Regained: Recalling Traditional Lifeways through Intergenerational Oral History in the “World’s Borough “Queens | $150,000 | National Endowment of Humanities | 2025-2026
Co-Director: Multigenerational Engaged Storytelling: Boundary Crossing and Historical Memory |$45,000 | City University of New York Interdisciplinary Research Grant | 2024
https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/projects/multigenerational-engaged-storytelling-1ba09f48-1b3a-40d6-aa03-a4f8b6116191
Principal Investigator:| The argument for meaningful news | PSC-City University of New York |$3,500 | 2024
Principal Investigator: Journalism Handbook Open Education Resources | $12,000 | City University of New York | 2024-2025
Principal Investigator: Open Educational Resources for English First Year Seminar| $11,500 | City University of New York | 2023-2024
Summer Institute, NEH Funded Border Waters
City University of New York, 2023
EDIT Awards, LaGuardia Community College, 2024
Summer Institute, CITA Experiential Learning
City University of New York, 2022
Voicing Poverty Humanities Fellowship, 2021
NEH-Funded. BMCC, City University of New York
Reading and Writing, MLA Summer Teaching Institute, 2021
Columbia University
Summer Institute: Mass Incarceration, 2021
NEH-Funded. LaGuardia Community College
Fellow, Alliance for Historical Dialogue & Accountability
Columbia University, NY | 2012
Media Fellow, Investigated the rise of drug-resistant Tuberculosis
The Union for Lung Diseases, India | 2013
Media Fellow, Reported on fragile ecosystems in India
The Center for Science & Environment, India | 2013
Travel Grant, Covered River gypsies in Bangladesh
European Journalism Center, The Netherlands | 2012
Research Fellow, Documented stories of forgiveness and atonement
Metta Center for Nonviolence, CA | 2012
Best Short Film, Sweden Film Awards, 2025
Best Micro Short Film, Mokkho International Film Festival, India, 2025
Best Short Film Under 5 Minutes, [Story.Land] International Short Film Fest, Bulgaria, 2025
Best Debut Short Film, Sittannavasal International Film Festival, India, 2025
Official Selection, Eutopia Arthouse Film Festival, Ireland, 2025
Official Selection, New York Istanbul Short Film Festival, USA, 2025
Shortlisted, Commonwealth Short Story Prize, 2017
Award for excellence in Tuberculosis Reporting Reach Lily-MDR-TB media partnership, India 2013
Recognized as one of 25 Young Leaders under 30 by McGill University, Canada 2012
Honored as 100 Young Leaders under 30, Women Deliver, New York, NY, 2013
GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS
Project Director: Transmission Regained: Recalling Traditional Lifeways through Intergenerational Oral History in the “World’s Borough “Queens | $150,000 | National Endowment of Humanities | 2025-2026
Co-Director: Multigenerational Engaged Storytelling: Boundary Crossing and Historical Memory |$45,000 | City University of New York Interdisciplinary Research Grant | 2024
https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/projects/multigenerational-engaged-storytelling-1ba09f48-1b3a-40d6-aa03-a4f8b6116191
Principal Investigator:| The argument for meaningful news | PSC-City University of New York |$3,500 | 2024
Principal Investigator: Journalism Handbook Open Education Resources | $12,000 | City University of New York | 2024-2025
Principal Investigator: Open Educational Resources for English First Year Seminar| $11,500 | City University of New York | 2023-2024
Summer Institute, NEH Funded Border Waters
City University of New York, 2023
EDIT Awards, LaGuardia Community College, 2024
Summer Institute, CITA Experiential Learning
City University of New York, 2022
Voicing Poverty Humanities Fellowship, 2021
NEH-Funded. BMCC, City University of New York
Reading and Writing, MLA Summer Teaching Institute, 2021
Columbia University
Summer Institute: Mass Incarceration, 2021
NEH-Funded. LaGuardia Community College
Fellow, Alliance for Historical Dialogue & Accountability
Columbia University, NY | 2012
Media Fellow, Investigated the rise of drug-resistant Tuberculosis
The Union for Lung Diseases, India | 2013
Media Fellow, Reported on fragile ecosystems in India
The Center for Science & Environment, India | 2013
Travel Grant, Covered River gypsies in Bangladesh
European Journalism Center, The Netherlands | 2012
Research Fellow, Documented stories of forgiveness and atonement
Metta Center for Nonviolence, CA | 2012