Honors, Awards, Grants & Fellowships

I’ve been fortunate to have received a number of recognitions, some of these are listed below.

Honors & Awards

• • • • 2025 Junior Research Award Honorable Mention, Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Migration, Displacement Section
      • 2025 Latinx Studies Section Dissertation Award, Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
      • 2025 Doctoral Student Award, American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE)
      • 2024 American Society of Criminology Division of Feminist Criminology Graduate Student Paper Award
      • 2024 Latino Excellence and Achievement Award (UCI Latinx Center)
      • 2023 LASA Graduate Student Paper Award (Latin American Studies Association Student Section)
      • 2023 Miki Vohryzek-Bolden Student Paper Award (Western Society of Criminology)
      • 2023 STEM Solutions Finalist (UC Center Sacramento)
      • • 2022 ASC Division of Critical Criminology & Social Justice Graduate Student Paper Award (American Society Criminology)
        • 2022 STEM Solutions Finalist (UC Center Sacramento)
        • Graduate Student Mentoring Award (UCI School of Social Ecology, 2018)

        Fellowships, Scholarships, & Grants

        • • Excel Funding Program, University of South Carolina (2025-2026)
          • ORISE Fellowship, Division of Violence Prevention, NCIP, Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2025)
          • College of Arts and Science Faculty Research and Creative Scholarship Grant, University of South Carolina (fall 2025)
          • 2024-2025 Northwestern Prison Education Program Fellowship
          • 2023 NSF-funded Law and Science Dissertation Grant Program at Arizona State University
          • 2023 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad – Alternate
          • 2023-2024 American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) Graduate Student Fellowship
          • NSF INTERN Supplemental Funding Opportunity (National Science Foundation, 2023)
          • 2023 Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies Grant (University of California, Irvine)
          • 2023 Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship (University of California, Irvine)
          • 2023-2024 UC Pre-Professoriate Fellowship (University of California, Irvine)
          • 2022 Center of Psychology & Law Dissertation Award (University of California, Irvine)
          • 2022 – 2023 Public Impact Fellowship (University of California, Irvine)
          • 2022-2023 Initiative to End Family Violence Graduate Fellowship (University of California, Irvine)
          • 2022 Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies Grant (University of California, Irvine)
          • 2022 Small Change, Better World Grant (University of California, Irvine Blum Center)
          • NSF INTERN Supplemental Funding Opportunity (National Science Foundation, 2021)
          • 2021- 2022 Research Justice Shope Fellowship (University of California, Irvine – Newkirk Center)
          • 2020- 2021 Research Justice Shope Fellowship (University of California, Irvine – Newkirk Center
          • 2020 Small Change, Better World Grant (University of California, Irvine Blum Center)
          • 2019-2020 Initiative to End Family Violence Graduate Fellowship (University of California, Irvine)
          • 2019 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (National Science Foundation)
          • University of California Firearm Violence Research Small Grant (University of California – Davis Health)
          • UC MEXUS Small Research Grant (University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States)
          • Graduate Opportunity Fellowship Award (University of California, Irvine)
          • 2017 – 2018 Hispanic Scholarship Fund Fellow (The Hispanic Scholarship Fund)