Awards/ Fellowships / Conferences

2023  Aspen Institute Baltimore Weaver Awardee, Baltimore, MD

2023 Technical.ly’s 2023 RealLIST Engineers in Baltimore, MD

2021 Cllctivly Black Led Solidarity Fund recipient, Baltimore, MD 

2020 Baltimore Hummingbird fund recipient, Baltimore, MD

2019 GRIT fund recipient, Baltimore, MD

2018 Blue Flamingo Literary Festival, Instructor, Panelist Nassau, Bahamas

2017 Catholic Relief Services, Volunteer, Technical assistance for Sweet N' Dried Farms, Chuka, Kenya

2015, 2017 Kimbilio Fiction Fellow, Southern Methodist University http://kimbiliofiction.com/

2014 Yale Writer’s Conference (Speculative Fiction with John Crowley)   http://summer.yale.edu/ywc