Manchester Community College 4C’s Merit Recognition (2007)

2006 Trailblazer Award from The Reel Sisters Film Festival at Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York for Speak So You Can Speak Again (Doubleday 2005)

Connecticut Community Colleges Alumna/Impact Award (2005)

Outstanding Publishing Award for Speak So You Can Speak Again (Doubleday 2004) (presented by the Zora Neale Hurston Society) July 2005

2005 Literary Award: Outstanding Contribution to Publishing presented by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) for Speak So You Can Speak Again (Doubleday 2004)

Naugatuck Valley Community College 4C’s Merit Recognition (2000)

Distinguished Alumni Award (Manchester Community College 1998)

Opportunity Fellowship (University of Massachusetts Amherst 1998-1999)

Alpha Kappa Delta Sociology Honor Society (Central Connecticut State University 1995)

Outstanding Graduating Senior in Sociology (Central Connecticut State University 1995)

Special Dean’s Fellow (Ohio State University 1995)

Sociology Research Grant (Ohio State University 1995)

Alpha Mu Gamma Foreign Language International Honor Society (MCC 1993)

Academic All-American Candidate (Manchester Community College 1993)

Phi Theta Kappa International Honor Society (Manchester Community College 1993)