Honors & Awards

Member of the Culturally Responsive Arts Education: Action and Learning Cohort 

2023-2026

Selected by the Minnesota Department of Education. A three year project to understand, evaluate, and improve the inequities occuring in arts education across the state of Minnesota.

Graduate Music Education Award for Outstanding Researcher
April 2020
Awarded by the F. Ludwig Diehn School of Music at Old Dominion University

Participant in Graduate Research Achievement Day
April 2020
Poster competition celebrating graduate student research at Old Dominion University.

Charlotte Plummer Owen Memorial Scholarship
January 2020
Awarded by Women Band Directors International. One of five female music education students selected from a pool of 100 applicants.

Alumni Association’s Outstanding Scholar Fellowship
June 2019
Annual award presented to only two individuals, an alumnus and a non-alumnus of Old Dominion University.

Mike Moss Conducting Study Grant
April 2019
Sponsored by the College Band Director National Association, the Mike Moss Conducting Study Grant is directed to women and people of diverse ethnicity to provide an opportunity for professional development and study at leading conducting symposiums across the country. Selected for a grant to study at Shenandoah University in June 2019.

Pi Kappa Lambda
May 2016
Elected into Pi Kappa Lambda National Honors Society for Music, into the Zeta Chi Chapter at Gustavus Adolphus College.

Gustie of the Week (Gustavus Adolphus College)
November 2015
Selected to be featured as Gustavus Student of the Week by faculty. Selection based on academic success and campus involvement. Featured in full page article in campus newspaper.