Honors and Awards

Jonathan Marshall Award for Innovative Teaching in Journalism and Communication by the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication, 2012
California Council for the Humanities “California Voices” radio production grant for “The Calexico Project,” 2008
Koerber Foundation (Hamburg) Transatlantic Idea prize in the foundation’s “Transitions in Life” competition for the book Mission Rejected, 2006
Gustavas Myers Book Awards honorable mention from the Gustavas Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights at Simmons College, Boston, for the book Wetback Nation, 2005
RIAS Berlin Commission/ Radio Television News Directors Foundation German/American Production Grant for the TV documentary: “Exodus to Berlin,” 2000, winner of the David Wolper Best Documentary Prize from the Wine Country Film Festival in California, 2001
National Parenting Publications Awards Gold Award for the book Made in Mexico, also cited on the Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People 2001 list, compiled by a joint committee of the Children’s Book Council and the National Council for the Social Studies, 2001
...and more

Profile