2025
Winner
Peter Lisagor Award
Best Reporting on Environment and Climate Change
Rooting out Risk: Cicero’s Challenge to Build a Safe Inclusive Park
Chicago Headline ClubRecognition
Awards for reporting that serves the public.
Individual and collaborative honors across environmental reporting, investigations, audio and community centered journalism.
2025
Finalist
Peter Lisagor Award
Best Community Reporting (small or medium print/online)
Everyone Is Mad at the Wrong People, with Wendy Wei
South Side Weekly · Chicago Headline Club2024
Winner
Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Award
Investigative Reporting
Profiled: The State of Traffic Stops in Illinois
Investigative Project on Race and Equity with WBEZ2024
Finalist · Team Recognition
New York Festivals Radio Awards
Health/Medical Podcast and Narrative/Documentary Podcast
100 Latina Birthdays — Reporter
LWC Studios2024
Winner
Chicago Headline Club Watchdog Award
Public Interest Journalism
Profiled: The State of Traffic Stops in Illinois
Chicago Headline Club2023
Finalist
Peter Lisagor Award
Guaranteed income coverage
City Bureau fellowship team reporting
Chicago Headline Club2022
Winner · Team Recognition
LION Local Journalism Award
Community Engagement Award
Borderless Magazine’s field canvassing program, which helped inform the reporting and engagement strategy for After the Buses
LION Publishers2022
Regional Winner
Edward R. Murrow Award
Excellence in Innovation
WBEZ Curious City Pilsen episode
RTDNA2022
Finalist
Peter Lisagor Award
Best Single Podcast
WBEZ Curious City Pilsen episode
Chicago Headline Club2021
Winner · Team Recognition
INN Nonprofit News Awards
Insight Award for Explanatory Journalism and Breaking Barriers Award
Unrest in Cicero: How One Day Shook a Town — Cicero Independiente team
Institute for Nonprofit NewsFellowships & Mentoring
Training, collaboration and community reporting.
Media Advisor
Media Advisor for Northeastern Illinois University Communication & Media students.
Altavoz Lab Community Journalist Fellow
Selected to develop a community engagement project connected to environmental reporting in Cicero.
Yollocalli Arts Reach Radio Mentor
Assisted youth in creating an audio story about green spaces and parks in Little Village, in partnership with City Bureau.
City Bureau Guaranteed Income Fellow
Reported on guaranteed income, reentry and the economic conditions shaping Chicago families.
City Bureau Environmental Fellow
Reported on environmental justice, industrial pollution and demolition dust in Little Village.