Honors, Awards, and Grants

  • 2026 City Regional Magazine Award, Best Profile Writing

  • 2025 Society for Features Journalism for Inclusion and Representation in Feature Writing

  • 2022 Pattis Family Foundation Award Shortlist

  • 2021 Studs and Ida Terkel Prize

  • 2018 Howard G. Buffett Fund for Women Journalists

  • 2018 Awesomeness Foundation Grant

  • 2018 City Regional Magazine Award, Best Multi-Platform Storytelling

  • 2017 Peter Lisagor Award, Best Feature Story

  • 2015 Beardstown Award, Chicago Tribune

  • 2014 Chicago Tribune Leadership Award

  • 2012 Peter Lisagor Award, Best Non-Deadline Reporting