Grants & Awards

• Film Independent Doc Story Lab, 2025

• InMaat Foundation, 2025

• Anonymous Was A Woman Environmental Grant, 2024

• Yeti Points North Pretty Wild Fellowship, 2024

• Doclands DocPitch, 2023

• Chicken & Egg Critical Issues Fund, 2023

• Yerba Buena Center Artist Fellowship, 2023

• Chicken and Egg Project Hatched, 2021, 2022

• SFFILM Rainin Grant (Screenwriting), 2022

• Perspective Fund Social Impact Grant, 2022

• Social Impact Campaign Award, BVAC, 2022

• California Humanities Documentary Fund, 2022

• Meadow Fund, 2022

• Sundance Kendeda Fund, 2021

• JustFilms Ford Foundation, 2019, 2020, 2021

• Special Jury Prize in American Profiles, Fruits of Labor, SF Indie Fest 2021

• IFF Boston Karen Schmeer Excellence in Documentary Editing award, Fruits of Labor, 2021

• Firelight Media Social Impact Grant, 2021

• Field of Vision Grant 2020, 2021

• Berkeley Film Foundation Saul Zaentz Award 2020

• Guadalajara Festival WIP Latino, 2020 (won 3 awards)

• JustFilms Ford Foundation, 2019, 2020

• Firelight Media Doc Lab, 2019-2021

• 4th World Indigenous Media Lab, 2020

• HotDocs Deal Maker, 2020

• Nia Tero Grant, 2019, 2020

• SFFILM FilmHouse Residency, 2019-2020

• California Humanities, 2019

• Bay Area Video Coaltion National Media Maker, 2019

• Santa Cruz Arts Council Grant, 2018

• Wenner-Gren Foundation Fejos Fellowship in Ethnographic

• Film, 2016-2017

• National Science Foundation Professional Grant, 2010-2012

• Flaherty Film Seminar Fellowship, 2012

• American Council for Learned Societies, 2009-2010

• National Science Foundation Dissertation Grant, 2007-2008

• Fulbright Scholarship, Colombia, 2007-2008

• Wenner-Gren Dissertation Grant, 2007-2008

• NYU Torch Fellowship, 2007-2008

• McCracken/Dean's Opportunity Doctoral Fellowship, 2003-2009

• Nominations
  Best Latinx Director, NALIP, 2021

  Best Latinx Documentary, NALIP, 2021

  Cinema Eye Honors Spotlight Award, 2021

  Best Documentary, IDA, shortlisted

  Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship Program, 2022