Fellowships | Awards

  • World Bank Vice President Unit (VPU) Year Award for Contributing to the Work of the WB-UNHCR Joint Data Center (JDC) on Forced Displacement (2020-2021).

  • World Bank Vice President Unit (VPU) Year Award for my Work on Integrating Forcibly Displaced Populations in Covid-19 Surveys in Ethiopia (2020-2021).

  • UK Department for International Development (DFID)-World Bank-UNHCR Young Fellowship Award Program: "Building the Evidence on Protracted Forced Displacement: A Multi-Stakeholder Partnership," placed at the World Bank-UNHCR Joint Data Center in Copenhagen, Denmark (2020-2021)

  • Josef Mestenhauser Student Award for Excellence in Campus Internationalization at University of Minnesota (U of M) (2019-2020)

  • Graduate Scholarship Award of The Create Initiative U of M, committed to the co-development of research with those historically underrepresented partners (2018-2019)

  • Robert and Paula Barrie Graduate Fellowship Award for International Trade, Development, and Public Policy, hosted by the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, U of M (2015-2017)

  • Gerald Mullin Distinguished Graduate Fellowship Award for International Peace and the solution to controversies between people, hosted by the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, U of M (2015- 2017)

  • William R. & Barbara A. Pearce Family Fellowship Award, hosted by the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, U of M (2015- 2017)

  • Mandela Washington Fellowship Award for President Obama Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), hosted by the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, U of M (2014)