Recipient of the 2010 Cleaves Fellowship, providing an opportunity to teach English at a school in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

Recipient of a Graduate College Scholarship for the 2009-2010 academic year.

I pursued a graduate degree part-time while working full-time.

Resident Advisor 2002-03.
Copy Editor for the Houstonian (Student newspaper) for 2003-04 academic year.
Public Relations Officer and Member, Sam Houston Democrats – playing a major role in re-establishing organization and growing its membership, 2001-04
Member and Officer, Public Relations Student Society of America, 2001-04
Inducted into the Golden Key International Honor Society, 2003
Inducted into the Pi Delta Phi, French Honor Society, 2004
Recipient of The Frank W. Mayborn Award for Community Leadership, awarded by the Texas Press Association, 2002
Recipient Sam Houston State University Communications Scholarship, 2003