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