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