• Terra Madre Salone del Gusto,United States Delegate. Turin, Italy. September 2022

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• USC Nonprofit Resilient Leaders and Capacity Building Program, 2022

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• Eating City Summer Campus at La Bergerie de Villarceaux in Chaussy, France, August 2018

 

• Congressional Hunger Center Alumni Leadership Award, June 2015

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• Collaborative Researchers for Education Sciences Training (CREST)/Institute of Education Sciences (IES) Pre-doctoral Fellow, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 2012-2015

 

• American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)/Emerging Leaders in Science & Society (ELISS) Fellow, 2014-2015

 

• University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) Barbara L. Jackson Scholar, 2014-2016

 

• Ruth Blakely West Scholarship, 2014-2015

 

• Women's International Leadership Fellow at International House in New York City, 2011-2012

 

• Illinois Early Childhood Fellow, Chicago, IL. 2009-2011

 

• Bill Emerson Fellow, Congressional Hunger Center, Washington, D.C., 2008-2009

 

• Gandhi, Nonviolence and the 21st Century Curriculum Ahimsa Center Fellow, California Polytechnic University, Pomona, 2007

 

• National Education Association Outstanding Local Leader National Award, 2005

 

• UCLA Women for Change Student Leadership Award, 2004

 

• Spencer Research Training Grant Institute, UCLA School of Education, 2003