AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS AND MEDIA APPEARANCES
Best Zine and Best News Zine for the 2025 Zine Prize from the Society of Professional Journalists
Mobile Homes: The Last Affordable Housing won the 2026 regional Murrow Award in the Small Market Television - News Documentary category
Arizona Luminaria won first place in the 2025 Local Media Association’s Public Service Community Impact Award for our coverage of the Project Blue data center, which included the first reporting of the company named in public documents (obtained through records requests) as the final user of the center.
Recipient of the 2025 McGraw Fellowship for business reporting to cover private equity and corporate ownership in Tucson’s mobile home parks.
2019 Lisagor awards, winner with the Chalkbeat Chicago team for best email newsletter and breaking news story.
2018 Lisagor awards, winner with the Chalkbeat Chicago team for best online news start-up
2017 Lisagor awards, 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