Academic Honors

Winner for Student Journalism, Online News Association, 2005
Best of Photojournalism, Multimedia, Independent, 2005
Second Place, Multimedia, Independent, Pictures of the Year International, 2005
Gold Medal, Society for News Design, 2005

Audience Choice Award, Asheville Film Festival, 2005
Official Selection, Northwest Folk Festival, OpenApp Film Festival, Piedmont Film Festival, 2005
Cratis D. Williams prize for outstanding student work, North Carolina Folklore Society 2005

  • Co-producer and director of documentary film and companion web site focusing on ballad singing tradition in a western North Carolina county

Presenter, AEJMC Southeast Colloquium, Tampa, FL March 2004

  • Presented paper “The Transformative Doctrine and Fan Media” to the Law Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Education.

Institute for Science Learning Fellowship, 2003-2005

  • Two-year fellowship with full tuition for outstanding master’s student in multimedia.