GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS
2023 de Castro Research Award, ($7999) Co-awarded with CMCI faculty member Pat Clark.
Grant for production costs related to a documentary film on refugee and scouting.
College of Media Communication and Information
University of Colorado Boulder
2023 Research & Innovation Arts & Humanities Grant, ($2,326). Awarded a university-
wide grant (1 of 19 selected) for distribution costs related to my feature film, Mango House.
2022 de Castro Research Award, ($3000)
Grant for Mango House (documentary film) distribution assistance.
College of Media Communication and Information
University of Colorado Boulder
2022 Payden Teaching Excellence Grant ($4,900)
Grant for immersive storytelling class, proposal co-written with Pat Clark.
College of Media Communication and Information
University of Colorado Boulder
2021 The Community Foundation/Boulder County Crisis Fund, ($160,000)
Two grants in partnership with the Museum of Boulder rooted around my portrait archive related to the Boulder shooting. The grants were two-fold, one for $10,000 for programming at Chautauqua Community House and the second, for $150,000 for a myriad of archiving/exhibition and programming related to the Boulder shooting, including a solo exhibit.
2021 Center for Humanities and the Arts, ($1000)
Second place, Humanities @ Home: Humanities & Healing Call for Works. The competition was related to the aftermath of the Boulder shooting.
University of Colorado Boulder
2020 de Castro Research Award, ($4750)
Film grant on the largest CO provider for refugee medical care/services
College of Media Communication and Information
University of Colorado Boulder
2020 Center for Humanities and the Arts, ($2000)
Film grant on the largest CO provider for refugee medical care/services
University of Colorado Boulder
2019 Benson Center Faculty Grant, ($1090)
Grant for festival entries fees for a feature-length film called, “The Hardest Day.” Executive producer and director of the film.
2019 de Castro Research Award, ($4875)
Grant for continuation of the human-animal bond project.
College of Media Communication and Information
University of Colorado Boulder
2017-2018 Faculty Fellow, One of two selected university-wide ($2,000)
Center for Western Civilization, Thought and Policy
University of Colorado Boulder
2017 Payden Teaching Excellence Grant ($3,566)
Grant for immersive storytelling
Proposal co-written with Pat Clark of DCMP
University of Colorado Boulder
2017 Graduate Committee on the Arts and Humanities Grant ($1,966)
For the at-home pet euthanasia documentary project
2013-2014 Inaugural Fellow ($15,000)
Multimedia Photography and Design Department
Syracuse University