Awards & appointments

Current Appointments:

• Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame Committee

• Society of Professional Journalists, Detroit

Past Appointments:

• Vice President, Board of Directors, Investigative Reporters and Editors

• Board of Director, Investigative Reporters and Editors 

• Investigative Reporters and Editors Member Services Committee Chair

• Deputy chair, National Association of Black Journalists' Print Task Force

• Vice president of FOIA, SPJ Detroit

• Board member, Michigan Coalition for Open Government 

• Board member, Detroit Young Professionals board member​​

Awards:

• 2024 Spirit of Diversity Award -- Wayne State University, Journalism Institute for Media Diversity

• 2023 Neil and Susan Sheehan Investigative Journalism Award -- National Press Club

• 2022 Salute to Excellence, 1st place -- National Investigative Category -- Racism in the Ranks

• 2021 finalist for MIT's 2021 McElheny Award for science journalism 

• 2019 First Amendment Award, Michigan Associated Press Media Editors 

• 2019 Ida B. Wells Investigative Fellow, Type Investigations
  2019 Salute to Excellence Special Project- Newspaper, regional over 100,000, National Association of Black Journalists

• 2018 Rising Star, News Media Alliance

• 2017 Society of Professional Journalists-Detroit, Young Journalist of the Year

• 2017 NABJ Salute to Excellence News, Series: Our children: Searching for Solutions

• 2016 Fellow, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles Journalist Law School