Awards & Honors
2025 Children’s & Family Emmy Award, Executive Producer
Winner: Public Service Initiative, La Fuerza de Creer: Dulce Sazón
2025 Children’s & Family Emmy Award, Executive Producer
Nominated: Best Children’s or Family Viewing Series, La Fuerza de Creer: Dulce Sazón
2024 Silver Anthem Award, Executive Producer
Awareness Categories-Education or Literacy Program or Platform, La Fuerza de Creer: Dulce Sazón
2021-2024 National Science Foundation, Advancing Informal STEM Learning
Principal Investigator
Building on Latinx Families' Strengths to Model and Promote Informal Science Learning Through a Culturally Responsive Telenovela Series (FAIN 2115621)
2021-2024 U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences
Principal Investigator
US History Through Young People's Eyes: An Efficacy Study of Mission US (PR R305A210223)
2017-2018 U.S. National Institutes of Health
Co-Principal Investigator
Behavioral Insights, Maternal Attention, and Early Language Resources for Low Income Infants (NIH R03 25-56510)
2016 New York University Seed Grant
Principal Investigator
Institute for Human Development and Social Change
2013 New York University Dissertation Writing Fellowship
Global Research Initiatives
2010 – 2012 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families
Principal Investigator
Narrative development in dual-language learning Latino Head Start children: Coherence across tasks and languages (Head Start Graduate Student Research Grant)
2008 – 2009 New York University Dean’s Grant for Graduate Student Research
2005 – 2008 New York University Founders’ Fellowship
1989 – 1992 Brown University: University Scholar