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

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