Freelance Investigative Reporters and Editors Grants, 2017 & 2018
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Grant, 2011
American Society of Journalists & Authors Award, 2011
International Catholic Union of the Press Award for Solidarity with Refugees, 2010
American Society of Journalists & Authors Award, 2010
The Livingston Awards for Young Journalists (finalist), 2009
Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma (finalist), 2009
Editor & Publisher EPPY Award (finalist), 2009
National Education Writers Association Award, 2009
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Grant, 2009
National Education Writers Association Award, 2008
Online Media Marketing & Advertising Award, 2008
German Marshall Fund Peter R. Weitz young journalist award, 2008
Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship, 2006-2007
International Reporting Project Fellowship, 2005
National Education Writers Association Award, 2001
Philip M. Hicks Prize for Literary Criticism, 1998
John Russell Hayes Poetry Prize, 1998
Swarthmore Foundation Grant, 1996 & 1998