AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS AND MEDIA APPEARANCES
Awards
Lisagor awards:
2019, winner with the Chalkbeat Chicago team for best email newsletter and breaking news story.
2018, winner with the Chalkbeat Chicago team for best online news start-up
2017, winner of the best education reporting in newspapers or magazines award
Finalist for the 2018 Driehaus award for investigative reporting for “Police in Chicago Public Schools operate with no special training and little oversight.”
Awarded an ivoh Award of Appreciation for a March 2017 story in YES! Magazine on the Chicago’s movement for reparations for victims of police torture
March 2016 Sidney Hillman prize for investigative journalism received for "How Chicago's 'Fraternal Order of Propaganda' shapes the story of fatal police shooting."
Storytelling award at Al Jazeera’s Media in Context hackathon held in Doha, Qatar - November 2014
Winning team in the Chicago 2013 Migrahack event for the production of Finding Care - June 2013
Fellowships
Social Justice News Nexus Fellowship at Northwestern University - January-July 2017
Immigration in the Heartland Fellowship with the Institute for Justice & Journalism - April 2014
McGraw Hill Financial Journalism Fellowship - September 2013
Radio Interviews
WBEZ, Chicago Public Radio - February 2016 - Interview about Fraternal Order of Police story
Project Management
Program coordinator for the Institute for Justice and Journalism’s Migrahack 2016 hackathon - May 2016
Appearances
WTTW's Chicago Tonight - May 2012 - Panel on the impact of the NATO summit
Al Jazeera's Media in Context Hackathon - Street Stories presentation - November 2014
Mentor at Data 4 Change conference held in Beirut, Lebanon - November 2015