ACCOLADES

Selected to attend the Thompson Reuters Foundation-United Nations Sustainable Development in a Changing Climate for Journalism program (2015)

Honored, along with the California Watch staff team and contributors, as 2012 Pulitzer Prize Finalists in Local Reporting [group award] (2012)

Chosen as a Poynter Institute Visual Journalism Fellow (2011)

Poynter Institute Scholarship for the Poynter Summer Journalism Fellowship (2011)

Finalist for U.S. Department of State's J. William Fulbright Fellowship for Journalism (2010)

Selected to attend Western Kentucky University's Mountain Workshops (2010)

'The Biggest Leap' award recipient at 61st Missouri Photo Workshop (2009)

Selected to attend the Missouri School of Journalism's 61st Missouri Photo Workshop (2009)

SJSU School of Journalism & Mass Communication Scholarship for the Missouri Photo Workshop (2009)

Honoree recipient of SJSU's CASA Dean Achievement Award for 44 Years to the 44th President Inaugural Project [group award] (2009)