Honors, Awards, and Memberships

Honors/Awards

2024 Finalist for 2025 Colorado Teacher of the Year

2024 National Council of Jewish Women Colorado Scholarship

2024 Louise Murray Award for Children’s Literature (First Place)

2024               Graduate Student Advisory Council Scholar Award

2024 First Place in the Graduate Division of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Essay Contest  (Women’s Studies Gift Award)

2024 Graduate Alumni Board Outstanding Research/Creativity Award

2024 Graduate Student Investigator Award

2024 First Place in July Poetry Contest with Poetry Society of

Colorado

Memberships

  • 2023-Present National Council of Teachers of English

  • 2024-Present National Writing Project

  • 2024-Present Civic Spirit (Denver Educators Cohort 2024-2025)

  • 2024-Present Anti-Defamation League Sturm Fellow (affiliated with ADL’s

                                      Glass Leadership Institute)

  • 2024-Present Poetry Society of Colorado

  • 2024-Present Academy of American Poets