Total Funding: $1,076,800 | Fellowships: $850,000 | Scholarships: $62,800
Beginning August 2026
National Science Foundation - Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology (NSF-PRFB)
University of Kansas - Lawrence
Total Value: $270,000
Award Abstract # 2507640
Awarded 2025
November 2025 - Present
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
KU Center for Genomics
University of Kansas - Lawrence
Total Value: $144,000
Awarded 2025
August 2023 - 2025
National Science Foundation - Graduate Research Fellow (NSF-GRFP)
Purdue University
Total Value: $225,000
Grant no. DGE-1842166
Awarded 2022
August 2020 - 2025
Sloan Indigenous Graduate Partnership Fellow
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Purdue University
Total Value: $40,000
Grant no. DGE-1842166
August 2020 - 2023
USDA NIFA - National Needs Graduate Fellowship
Purdue University
Total Value: $115,000
Grant no. 2020-38420-30722
August 2017 - May 2020
American Chemical Society Scholars Program
American Chemical Society
Simpson College and University of Nebraska - Lincoln
August 2020 - Present
Higher Education Program Scholarship
Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Higher Education Program
Total Value: $31,000
August - December 2025
Weissman Scholarship Fund
American Indian College Fund
Total Value: $3,000
August 2024 - May 2025
Weissman Scholarship Fund
American Indian College Fund
Total Value: $3,000
August 2024 - 2025
Chahta Foundation Doctoral Scholarship
Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
Total Value: $10,000
August 2024 - May 2025
AT Anderson Memorial Scholarship
American Indian Science and Engineering Society
Total Value: $2,000
May 2019 - May 2020
University Creative Activities and Research Experience Grant
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Total Value: $4,800
Received Summer 2019 and Fall-Spring 2019
Additional Scholarships:
Dr. John L. Adams Memorial Scholarship (UNL)
Live, Learn, Lead Scholarship (Tri Delta)
Wesley Service Scholarship (Simpson College)
For Conference Travel Awards, please continue below.
October 2024
Weier Outstanding PhD Student Award
Department of Botany and Plant Pathology
Purdue University
April 2020
Induction to Chi Omega Lambda, National Honor Society
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
May 2020
Graduation with High Distinction
Department of Biochemistry, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
April 2020
Induction to Order of Omega, National Greek Honor Society
Rho Epsilon Chapter, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
May 2019
Induction to Tau Sigma, National Transfer Student Honor Society
Lambda Chapter, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
July 2024
Graduate Student Travel Award
American Phytopathological Society
Total Value: $3,000
Conference: Plant Health
Memphis, TN
June 2024
Indigenous Voices in Botany Travel Award
Botanical Society of America, American Indian Science and Engineering Society
Total Value: $3,000
Conference: Botany 2024
Grand Rapids, MI
July 2023
Grad. Student Department Travel Award
Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University
Total Value: $500
Conference: IS-MPMI 2023 Congress
Providence, RI
July 2023
International Society for Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions
Total Value: $1,500
Conference: IS-MPMI 2023 Congress
Providence, RI
June 2021
Botany and Plant Pathology Graduate Student Organization Travel Fund
Purdue University
Total Value: $100
March 2020
Dr. Patrice Berger Student Experience Fund, Travel Award
University of Nebraska Honors Program
Total Value: $500
Conference: American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology