Awards, Fellowships, and Grants

2019-2020

Chancellor’s Doctoral Incentive Program Travel Grant, California State University

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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