Budapest International Foto Awards 2023 - Silver Winner People/Wedding: Traditional Sikh Wedding

Tokyo International Foto Awards 2022 - Bronze Winner Editorial/Person: Inner Truth: Music

Budapest International Foto Awards 2022 - Bronze Winner People/Lifestyle: Fight Series

19th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards 2022 - Honorable Mention: Culture, Portrait, Black and White

Budapest International Foto Awards 2021 - Bronze Winner, Personal Portfolio

Tokyo International Foto Awards 2021 - Official Selection, People/Lifestyle

Tokyo International Foto Awards 2021 - Honorable Mention, Portrait

International Photography Awards 2021 - Honorable Mention, Portrait, Lifestyle: Haiti

International Photography Awards 2020 - Honorable Mention, Deeper Perspective: Haiti

The Shelby Steele Foundation - supporting my Cuba-New York art documentary project, 2024

Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism (FAIR) in the Arts, Artist Grant for photography and writing, 2023

Story writing grant from Program for Pluralism and Civil Exchange at the Mercatus Center, George Mason University, 2022

Dorothy L. Hurley Scholarship for Excellence in Africana Studies, 2017