Awards, Fellowships, and Grants
2019-2020
Chancellor’s Doctoral Incentive Program Travel Grant, California State University
Faculty Mini-Grant Program, Center for Community Engagement, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
2018-2019
Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) Program, Department of Education, submitted in collaboration with Celeste Salinas, Dr. Giselle Navarro-Cruz, and Dr. Eden Haywood-Bird
“Creating a Family Friendly Study Area” in the University Library, Student Success Grant in collaboration with Dr. Giselle Navarro-Cruz (PI), Julie Shen (Co-PI), and Sally Romero (Co-PI)
2017-2018
Indirect Cost Recovery Small Grants Program, Department of Psychology and Sociology, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Faculty Mini-Grant Program, Center for Community Engagement, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
2016-2017
Assigned Time for Exceptional Service, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Faculty Mini-Grant Program, Faculty Center for Professional Development, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Chancellor’s Doctoral Incentive Program Travel Grant, California State University
2015-2016
Early Career Summer Support Program, Office of Research, California
State Polytechnic University, Pomona
2014-2015
President’s Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity Award, Office of
Research, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Faculty Fellow, Center for Community Engagement, California State
Polytechnic University, Pomona
2013-2014
Young Alumni Achievement Award, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA
Presidential Grant Award, Willamette University
Strategic Communications Training Program, The Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation
Multidisciplinary Junior Faculty Fellowship Program, American
Association of Hispanics in Higher Education/Ford Foundation
2012-2013
Sydney S. Spivack Program in Applied Social Research and Social Policy
Community Action Research Award, American Sociological Association
Liberal Arts Research Collaborative Faculty Summer Research Grant,
Willamette University
2011-2012
Emerging Diversity Scholar Citation, National Center for Institutional Diversity, University of Michigan
2010-2011
Chancellor’s Doctoral Incentive Program Mini-Grant, California State University
University of California All Campus Consortium on Research for
Diversity (UC/ACCORD) Dissertation Fellowship
Graduate Research Mentorship Program Fellowship, Graduate Division,
University of California, Santa Barbara
2008-2009
Minority Dissertation Fellowship in Education Research (Alternate),
American Educational Research Association
National Science Foundation Summer Research Award, University of
California Diversity Initiative for Graduate Study in the Social Sciences
Dissertation Research Grant, University of California Linguistic Minority Research Institute
2007-2010
Chancellor’s Doctoral Incentive Program, Department of Sociology and Psychology, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Mary Yu Danico
2007-2009
Graduate Student Fellow, American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education
2007-2008
Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, Graduate Division, University of
California, Santa Barbara
Pre-doctoral Diversity Fellowship (Alternate/Honorable Mention), The Ford Foundation
2006-2007
Graduate Student Research Award, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara
Pre-doctoral Diversity Fellowship (Honorable Mention), The Ford
Foundation
2005-2006
Graduate Student Research Award, Center for Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
2004-2007
Minority Fellowship, American Sociological Association/National
Institute of Mental Health
2003-2004
Ronald E. McNair Scholar, Claremont Graduate University, Faculty Advisor: Dr. Jose Calderon