Awards

First-place education reporting: 2023 Colorado Press Association Better News Media Contest 

First-place for an education feature story about how a federal proposal for tuition-free community college would have impacted Colorado students. 

Read the story here: Free community college proposal excites Colorado students, educators

First-place news reporting: 2023 Colorado Press Association Better News Media Contest

First-place for a co-authored story about the fentanyl crisis' impact in south metro Denver. 

Read the story here: With fentanyl deaths on the rise, south metro police, advocates grapple with solutions

Second-place enterprise reporting: 2023 Society of Professional Journalists Top of the Rockies Awards

Second-place for my analysis of police chase policies in two different south metro Denver jurisdictions following several crashes. 

Read the story here: Crashes in Littleton after Douglas County pursuits highlight chase-policy differences

First-place politics reporting: 2022 Society of Professional Journalists Top of the Rockies Awards

First-place for my story on how the results of Littleton's 2021 municipal election could change the city council's political ideology. 

Read the story here: Election Results 2021: Council election signals Littleton’s ‘openness to change’

2020 Helen Verba Award: Society of Professional Journalists Colorado chapter

A scholarship awarded to student journalists in print news each academic year. 

2020 Damon Runyon Scholarship: Denver Press Club

A scholarship awarded to student journalists each academic year and presented at the Denver Press Club, the nation's oldest press club.