HIGHLIGHTS
Individual Artist Fellowship, California Arts Council (2021-2022)
$5,000 award
Actors Fund Career Transition for Dancers Award, The Entertainment Community Fund (formerly The Actors Fund) (2022)
$2,000 award
Graduate Pedagogical Fellow, UCI Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation (2022)
$5,000 award
Most Promising Future Faculty Award Nominee (2021-2022 and 2022-2023), UCI Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation
Recognition of graduate students who show great promise through their effectiveness as an instructor, their research, and their service to the department, university, profession, or community.
ADDITIONAL AWARDS
Graduate Research Support Grant, UCI Center for Medical Humanities (2023)
$1,500 award for MFA thesis research
Beth L. Koehler Dance Scholarship, UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts, Department of Dance (2023)
$1,000 award for high creative achievement and academic performance in contemporary dance
Graduate Project Grant, UCI Associated Graduate Students (2023)
$1,500 award for MFA thesis research
Graduate Student & Postdoc Travel Grant, UCI Division of Teaching Excellence & Innovation (2023)
$1,000 award for conference research presentations
Graduate Research Conference Award, UCI Associated Graduate Students (2023)
$250 award for conference research presentations
Summer Research Support Grant, UCI Center for Medical Humanities (2022)
$2,500 award for MFA thesis research
21C Arts Research & Innovation Grant, UCI Institute for 21st Century Creativity (2022)
$2,000 award for MFA thesis research
Beth L. Koehler Dance Scholarship, UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts, Department of Dance (2022)
$2,500 award for high creative achievement and academic performance in contemporary dance
Presidential Award, National Dance Education Organization (2022)
For service to the organization
Campus Semifinalist, University of California Grad Slam Research Competition (2022)
UC Irvine Campus Semifinalist, “Everyone Can Dance: Emergent inclusion in choreographic practice.”
Leo Freedman Foundation Fellowship, UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts (2022)
$5,000 award for outstanding CTSA graduate students
Kris & Linda Elftmann Scholarship, UC Irvine Claire Trevor School of the Arts (2021)
$1,500 award for academic excellence
Fellow, Dance/USA Institute for Leadership Training (2021)
1 of 10 fellows for 10th annual DILT cohort
Professional Development Scholarship, National Dance Education Organization (2021)
Grant Recipient, Arts Council for Long Beach (2018)
$1,000 grant award sponsoring second annual stART program highlighting emerging dance and music artists
Student Programming Grant, California State University, Long Beach, Associated Students Incorporated (2016-2017)
$5,000 grant award to launch “Weekends with the Masters” workshop program featuring minoritized dance narratives including traditional Hula and dance journalism
