Awards to my Friends School of Baltimore students for their writing & reporting, 2019-present

• 2026:  Journalism Education Association’s Student Journalist Impact Award for the article “Always Learning,” to Levi Greene ’27, Micah Kramer ’26, Charlotte Jacobs ’26, & team
• 2026:  Student News Online’s Best of SNO award for the article “Always Learning,” to Levi Greene ’27, Micah Kramer ’27, Charlotte Jacobs ’26, & team
• 2024:  Student News Online’s Best of SNO award for the article “We See ‘That of God’ in Every Person – Not Every Idea,” to Caroline Toll ’25, Brayden Daniels ’25, and Ella Palmer ’25
• 2024:  Student News Online’s Best of SNO award for the article “Story of a Polling Place,” to
• 2023:  Student News Online’s Best of SNO award for “Dr. Cost Raises Children, Students … and Chickens!” by Ronan Healy ’25
• 2023:  Student News Online’s Best of SNO award for “Fixing a Broken Heart,” to Keely Carter ’24
• 2019:  Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Gold Key for “The Bad Hair Day That Made Me an Activist,” to Sophie Soltanian ’21

Awards for my own writing & reporting, 1996-2018

• 2017 & 2018:  Freelance Investigative Reporters and Editors Grants for Baltimore justice reporting
• 2011:  Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Grant, for the project “Run or Hide? Seeking Refuge in Tanzania”
• 2011:  American Society of Journalists & Authors Award
• 2010:  International Catholic Union of the Press Award for Solidarity with Refugees
• 2010:  American Society of Journalists & Authors Award
• 2009:  The Livingston Awards for Young Journalists (finalist)
• 2009:  Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma (finalist)
• 2009:  Editor & Publisher EPPY Award (finalist)
• 2009:  Education Writers Association Award
• 2009:  Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Grant
• 2008:  Education Writers Association Award
• 2008:  Online Media Marketing & Advertising Award
• 2008:  German Marshall Fund Peter R. Weitz Young Journalist Award
• 2006-2007:  Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship
• 2005:  International Reporting Project Fellowship
• 2001:  Education Writers Association Award
• 1998:  Swarthmore College’s Philip M. Hicks Prize for Literary Criticism
• 1998:  Swarthmore College’s John Russell Hayes Poetry Prize
• 1996 & 1998:  Swarthmore Foundation Grants for Missouri oral history work