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Outstanding Book Award, Critical and Cultural Studies Division, National Communication Association, 2022.

• Energy Islands: Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico

James A. Winans-Herbert A. Wichelns Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address, National Communication Association, 2022.

• Energy Islands: Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico

Top Book Award, Rhetoric Society of America, 2022.

• Energy Islands: Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico

Tarla Rai Peterson Book Award in Environmental Communication, National Communication Association, 2021.

• Energy Islands: Metaphors of Power, Extractivism, and Justice in Puerto Rico

Bill Eadie Distinguished Award for Top Scholarly Article, National Communication Association’s Applied Communication Division, 2019.

• “Fueling and Delinking from Energy Coloniality in Puerto Rico”

Outstanding Voice in Environmental Communication Award, National Communication Association, 2019.

Mortar Board Professor of the Year Award, Willamette University, 2019.

Top Dissertation Award, National Communication Association’s Environmental Communication Division, 2017.

• Energy Remix: Decolonial Discourses of Decarbonization

Excellence in Teaching Award, Indiana University, 2016.

Feminist Scholar of the Year Award, Organization for Research on Women & Communication, 2015.

• “Lost in Translation: Challenging (White Monolingual Feminism’s) <Choice> with Justicia Reproductiva” 

Donald P. Cushman Memorial Award for top student paper nationally across all units and divisions, National Communication Association, 2014.

• “Toxic Coloniality: Extracting Natural Gas Advocacy Rhetoric and Resisting its Appeals”

TV News Awards, Northwestern University, 2006-2009.

• Executive Producer and Anchor, Emmy winner, College Television Award for “Best College Newscast,” 2009.
• Live reporter, Emmy winner, NATAS Chicago-Midwest Chapter, Election Night 2008.
• Executive Producer and Anchor, SINBA “Best Newscast” Award.
• Executive Producer, College Broadcasters, Inc. Best Newscast” Finalist.