Awards

· ARTx Grant from Creative Flagstaff 2024 

· Artists to Work Grant from the Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture 2023

· Finalist in the Austin Film Festival Pitch Competition 2023

· Semi-finalist in the Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition 2023

· Research and Development Grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts 2022 

· Second Rounder, ScreenCraft Film Fund Fall 2022

· Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference Fellow, “The Art of the Pitch” 2021

· Quarterfinalist in the 2020 Big Break Screenwriting Contest, Diversity Category 2020

· First Rounder in NYC Midnight – Short Story Challenge 2019

· Semifinalist, 2019-2020 Pen Writing for Justice Fellowship 2019 

· Simon Rockower Award for excellence in news reporting, the American 

  Jewish Press Association 2018

· Best Film category at the Dinerwood Short Film Festival, Co-Writer 2016