Awards

2021

Non-Residential Fellow, Immigration Initiative at Harvard (IIH)

2020

Aristide Zolberg Distinguished Student Scholar from the American Sociological Association, International Migration section

Dissertation Fellowship from the American Association of University Women (2020-2021), $20,000

Honorable Mention for the Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship

*Travel grant from the University of Utah: Asia Center and Department of Sociology to present at the Mini-conference: 21st Century Asian Migration & Incorporation, Estimated $600

Travel grant from the Eastern Sociological Society to present at the Mini-conference: Toward a Critical Migration Studies, $200

2017 – 2019

Lee Student Support Fund for the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) conference, $100

2017

Travel grant from the Mellon Faculty Diversity Project to present research findings at Queens College, City University of New York, $400

Honorable Mention for the Beth B. Hess Memorial Scholarship, co-sponsored by Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS) and the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), $600

The Karen R. Hitchcock New Frontiers Fund, Initiatives for Women, University at Albany, $600

2011 – 2014

Graduate Assistant Fellowship, University at Albany, $15,400

2009

Renaissance Scholar Academic Distinction for maintaining a cumulative GPA of 3.2 and higher, Montgomery College

Renaissance Scholars Program, Montgomery College, $1,000

Named on the Deans List for maintaining a GPA of 3.4

Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society (international honor society of two-year colleges and academic programs, state colleges and community colleges)

Pharmaceutical Product Development Scholarship, Pharmaceutical Product Development, Rockville, MD, $2,000

Rockville Foundation Scholarship, Montgomery College, Rockville, MD, $2,000

All-Maryland Academic First Team by Phi Theta Kappa in the Washington metropolitan area competition, $1,250

  • Coca-Cola Silver Scholar and a member of the All-Maryland First-Team out of the 1,450 students from 800 colleges nationwide

2008

Internship stipend from Paul Peck Humanities Institute, Montgomery College, Rockville, MD, $1,100

  • Awarded stipend to participate in the Library of Congress summer internship

Danielle Ezrin Creative Writing Scholarship, Montgomery College, Rockville, MD, $1,000

Robert Torrey Scholarship from the Montgomery College Foundation, Rockville, MD, $2,000

OTHER AWARDS

2015

Grant from the University Auxiliary Services Program Fund to screen the “Documented” movie on campus, University at Albany, Albany, NY, $350

2011

Student Leadership & Service Award, Mount Holyoke College

2010

Barbara M. Byrne Internship Fellowship, Mount Holyoke College, $2,500

* = Cancelled/Postponed due to COVID19