Awards
Writing Awards
1st Place Pulitzer Center Fighting Words Poetry Contest, Peace & Conflict Category, June 2024
Finalist for Montgomery County, MD’s Youth Poet Laureate, 2024
American Voices Nomination, 3 Gold Keys, & 1 Silver Medal in Scholastic Writing Competition, March 2024
Winner of One Teen Story Contest Ages 16-17, The Things We Don’t Talk About, March 2024
National Winner of JUST POETRY American High School Poets Competition, Eulogy for Eurydice as a Mother, Spring 2024
Maryland Seal of Biliteracy, Spanish, 2023
Film Awards
2x Official Selection for the All American High School Film Festival and Screened 2x in Times Square
C-SPAN StudentCam Third Prize, "Wielding S.H.I.E.L.D: How Congress Can Protect Our Cyber Sexual Dignity," 2023
Maryland National History Day First Prize & National Qualifier in the Documentary Category (first from school to ever advance to Nationals) for "The Pyrrhic Victory of the 15th Amendment: How Debate & Diplomacy Failed the Disenfranchised," 2022
C-SPAN StudentCam Second Prize, "Pervasive: How Sexual Violence is Becoming Textbook in Schools & Colleges," 2021