Awards
Writing/ Filmmaking:
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2025, Directed documentary selected by Nyack International Film Festival.
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2025, Directed documentary selected by The Film Collective Short Film Festival.
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2025, Directed documentary selected by The International Black & Diversity Film Festival – IBDFF . Movie was also nominated for Best Documentary Film International category and nominated for the Best Director Documentary category (an independent film festival and part of the Black Actors & Film Guild Canada).
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2025, Selected by Indiana University's Center for Urban and Regional Excellence to be the teaching artist for their Indiana Arts Commission sponsored filmmaking grant.
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2025, Directed documentary selected by Moss Farm in Montreal Film Festival.
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2025, Selected by Indiana Arts Commission for an Artist Fellowship focused on Creative Aging.
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2024, Selected by Indiana University's Center for Urban and Regional Excellence as the teaching artist for their Indiana Arts Commission sponsored in-person digital media class.
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2024, Directed documentary selected by Heartland Film for their Indy Shorts Festival (Voted Top 25 Festivals Worldwide by Moviemaker Magazine)
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2024, Selected by VOCART.org to be one of two teaching artists for their Indiana Arts Commission sponsored hybrid learning filmmaking grant (in partnership with Indiana University's Center for Urban and Regional Excellence)
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2024, Selected by Indiana Arts Commission for an Artist Fellowship focused on Creative Aging.
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2023 Directed film that received the Best Short Documentary at the Madonie Sicilian Film Festival
2023-2024, Selected by the Indiana Arts Commission to be part of their Lifelong Arts Indiana Teaching Artist Cohort
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2023, Selected by the The Federation of State Humanities Councils (Federation) and the National Humanities Alliance (NHA) to deliver a workshop focused on bridging the equity gap through universal design for the National Humanities Conference.
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2023, Wrote and Directed Short that Received Honorable Mention Award at the Like It International Film Festival
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2023-2024, Unearthed Film Project Fellowship (awarded by Indiana Humanities to produce documentaries.)
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2022, Wrote and Directed Short that Received Exceptional Merit Award at the WRPN Women’s International Film Festival
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2022, featured Screenwriter/filmmaker at the Reading Film Festival
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2022, featured Screenwriter/filmmaker at the Shawna Shea Film Festival
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2022, featured Screenwriter/filmmaker at the Lysistrata Comedy and Film Festival
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2019-2020, Individual Advancement Program Grant in Literature
(Middle Grade Novel from the Indiana Arts Commission)
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2018, Featured Editor/Director for movie that premiered at the Directed by Women Global Film Festival
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2017, Featured Editor/Director for movie that premiered at the Praxis International Film Festival
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2016, Featured Editor/Director for movie that premiered at the Indiana Dunes International Film Festival
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2015, Featured Director at the EL Cid Comedic Shorts Festival
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2014, Sundance International Filmmaker Award (Adapter/ Translator)
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2010, Featured Writer/Director at the LA Women in the Arts Festival Narrative Premiere
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2002, David Letterman Award ($5,000 Scholarship for original screenplay)
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Community Work:
2019, American Planning Award-Outstanding Grassroots Initiative
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2018, Urban League of NWI Award for Diversity and Inclusion
2018, Partners for Clean Air Annual Bicycling Actions Award for the State of IN
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2016, NWI Influential Women Finalist
​2016, American Planning Award for Outstanding Public Outreach