Research/Arts-based
- Winner for Best Alumni Short-Film
- Winner for Best Actress
- Winner for Best Woman Director
2021 African American Creative Community Series (AACCS), Norfolk Public Library, Recipient
2020 John R. Broderick Diversity Champion Award, Recipient
2018 Graduate Emerging Leader, University of Georgia
GRANTS/PROJECTS AWARDED
Total dollar amounts withheld from CV, can be provided (if requested)
2024 4-VA @JMU Collaborative Research Grant Award
Lead External Collaborator, Co-Research Contributor [w/ Dr. Rachel Rhoades]
(Focus: Utilizing Theatre for Equity & Community Development—Newcomers Translate Experiential Knowledge through Embodied Storytelling)
2024 Center for Artistic Activism (C4AA) Faculty Fellowship
(Focus: Unstoppable Voters, nonpartisan voting efforts on collegiate campuses)
2023 National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) Summer Institute Faculty Fellow grant
(Focus: Preserving and Transmitting American Ensemble-Based Devised Theatre
The In[HEIR]itence Project Exodus: Homecoming local artist project funding
(Proj: StoryTell(HER) Summit 2023: Her Voice, Her Narrative & Her Vision)
2021 ODU Fall 2021 Themester: Arts and Social Justice project funding
(Proj: Dialoguing with our Bodies, an Exploration of Performance Activism)
2020 Association for Theatre Movement Educators (ATME) Innovation Fellowship,
(Proj. Funding: Solo piece- Being B.A.D. and the Performance of Redemption), matched
2018 Emerging Leaders Independent Project Funding, Principal Investigator
(Project Funding: G.L.A.M: Girls Leadership and Mentors of Athens)
2016 Arts in Community Grant, Principal Investigator
(Presentation: Atlanta Fringe Festival)
Sylvia Pannell Travel Grant, Principal Investigator
(Presentation: Atlanta Fringe Festival)
2014-2015 American Honda Foundation Grant, Assisted.
(Project Funding: EUREKA! S.T.E.M-based program, Girls Inc. of the Greater Peninsula)
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