FELLOWSHIPS

UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship (2024)

CDIP Dissertation Year Fellowship (2023)

California State University (CSU) Chancellor’s Doctoral Incentive Program (CDIP) Fellowship (2022)

UC-Cuba Academic Initiative Research Fellowship Award (2022, 2020, 2019)

UCLA Summer Stone Chair Fellowship Award (2021)

UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies – Dissertation Research Fellowship (2021)

UCLA Graduate Summer Research Mentorship Program Fellowship Award (2020)

FLAS (Foreign Language and Area Studies) Summer Fellowship for Nahuatl Language Study (2019, 2018)

UCLA Department of History 5-Year Graduate Fellowship (2017)

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Research Fellowship (2010-2012)

Columbia University Leadership Alliance Research Fellowship (2010)

Ronald McNair Sophomore Summer Research Fellowship (2010)

RESEARCH GRANTS

Mellon Mays Institute for Citizens & Scholars – Dissertation Travel and Research Grant Recipient (2022, 2021)

UCLA Department of History – Doctoral Summer Research Grant (2023, 2022, 2021)

Central American Studies (CAS) – Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Travel Grant Recipient (2020)

UCLA Center for Women’s Study Travel Grant Recipient (2019)

Critical Refugee Studies Collective Grant Recipient (2017)

Harvard University Schlesinger Library Oral History Grant Recipient (2015)

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Summer Research Travel Grant Recipient (2011)

SCHOLARSHIPS

Davis-Putter Scholarship Award Recipient (2018)

Salvadoran American Leadership Education Fund (SALEF) Dream Scholarship (2018, 2008)

Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs Merit-Based Tuition Scholarship (2013)

Syracuse University S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications Dean’s Scholarship (2012)

Rosalind W. Alcott Scholarship (scholarship for 2 outstanding Political Science students), College Honors (2011)

Institute of Shipboard Education Semester at Sea Diversity Merit-Based Tuition Scholarship (2009)

National Association of Hispanic Journalists Community Projects Scholarship (2009)

UCLA Latino Alumni Association Merit-Based Scholarship (2008)

UCLA National Merit Scholarship (2008)

SELECTIONS & RECOGNIITIONS

National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA)/Feminist Formations Award for “Best Paper” (2024)

Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Film Festival – Eternos Indocumentados Official Selection (2021)

Liberty Hill Foundation Berta Wolfe Fund for Community Service Award (2016)

Central American International Film Festival (CAIFF) – Children of the Diaspora Official Selection (2016)

CARECEN Team Member & Employee of the Year Award (2015)

Latin American Perspectives (LAP) Film Archive – Children of the Diaspora Official Selection (2015)

Culture Unplugged Film Festival – Children of the Diaspora Official Selection (2014)

USEU Special Recognition for Children of the Diaspora Film Tour (2013)

UCLA Advanced Academic Placement Junior Scholar (2010)

UCLA Dean’s Honor Roll (2009-2010)

Scholar of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars (2009-2011)

Sigma Alpha Lambda National Leadership and Honors Organization (2009-2010)

California Chicano News Media Association (CCNMA) Youth Award (2008-2009)

California Hispanic Heritage Journalism Youth Award (Silver Medalist) (2008)

High Tech High Los Angeles: High Honor Roll 2004-2008, awards in Journalism (2006-2008), History (2008), Calculus (2008), English (2005)