Honors

• Featured in: "Her Word As Witness: Portraits of Women Writers of the African Diaspora." Photography by Laylah Amatullah Barrayn at Skylight Gallery of the Center for Arts & Culture of the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, Brooklyn, New York University, Atlanta, 2011-2012
• Featured as a Notable Fulbright Alumni in national marketing campaign. Fulbright Program, 2011 PDF
• Joseph P. Palamountain Young Alumni Achievement Award, Skidmore College
• Black Woman of Distinction Award, Women's Center, York College
• Selected as one of ten profiles in "Prominent Latinos Reshape the Face of New York City," Viva New York Magazine, Daily News
• Fulbright Scholarship, Spain, 1996-1997