2021-2023 Russell Sage Foundation Presidential Grant
2021-2022 University of California Humanities Research Institute Underrepresented Scholars Mentorship Program
2020-2023 UCI Chancellor’s Inclusive Excellence Award
2020-2021 University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship (Mentor: Cecilia Menjivar)
2020 Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award, Honorable mention, Section on Children & Youth, American Sociological Association
2020 Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, Honorable mention
2019-2020 Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Fellowship
2019 Harvard Graduate School of Education Conference Travel Grant
2019-2020 University of California Humanities Research Institute Multi-Campus Graduate Student Working Group (Co-PI with Leisy Abrego, Lucia Leon, Katy Maldonado, and Monica Cornejo)
2019 Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies Visiting Scholar Fellowship at UC San Diego
2018-2019 Society for the Study of Social Problems Racial/Ethnic Minority Graduate Fellowship
2018 Harvard Graduate School of Education Conference Travel Grant
2018-2020 Sociological Initiatives Foundation Research Grant (Co-PI with Marisol Clark-Ibañez)
2018 UC Los Angeles UndocuScholars Project Research Grant (Co-PI with Marisol Clark-Ibañez)
2018 UC Los Angeles UndocuScholars and Ford Foundation Grant for My Undocumented Life (Co-PI with Rachel Freeman)
2017 ACT Corporate Giving Award (Co-PI with Marisol Clark-Ibañez)
2017 Latino Center for Leadership Development Research Grant (Co-PI with Marisol Clark-Ibañez)
2017 NCHEA Research Grant (Co-PI with Marisol Clark-Ibañez)
2017 Harvard Weatherhead Center for International Affairs Research Grant
2017 Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline by the American Sociological Association and the National Science Foundation (Co-PI with Edelina Burciaga, Kevin Escudero, Andrea Flores, Lisa M. Martinez, and Joanna Perez)
2017 Harvard Graduate School of Education Conference Travel Grant
2015-2018 Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
2015 Harvard Graduate Student Council Conference Travel Grant
2012-2013 Ruth G. Keen Memorial Scholarship, SDSU
2012 John and Mary L. Anderson Memorial Endowed Scholarship Sociology, SDSU
2011-2012 MANA de San Diego Sylvia Chavez Memorial Scholarship
2011-2012 CSU Chancellor’s Office Pre-Doctoral Program Sally Casanova Scholar
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