Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, 2025-2028
The Vanier CGS Program, valued at $150,000, is the most prestigious scholarship awarded to world-class Canadian doctoral students. It supports individuals who have demonstrated exceptional leadership and scholarly achievement in graduate studies across the social sciences, natural sciences, engineering, and health fields.
Ranked #6 among 185 SSHRC national nominees.
Fulbright Research Scholarship, Fulbright Program, 2024-2025
Awarded $35,000 for doctoral research, A Comparative Study on Working Learners in the United States and Canada at the Pathways Laboratory, Center for Educational Research (CERAS) at Stanford University. I will be working with Mitchell Stevens, Director of the Pathways Laboratory & Professor of Education at Stanford GSE.
Fulbright Canada Website
International Education Week 2024
Press Release Feature (Instagram/Facebook/LinkedIn/Twitter)
Visiting Doctoral Scholar, Centre for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley, 2024-2025
Awarded with Visiting Scholarship appointment for doctoral project, A Comparative Study on Working Learners in the United States and Canada, at the Center for Studies in Higher Education (CSHE), Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California Berkeley. I will be working with Jesse Rothstein, Professor of Public Policy and Economics & Carmel P. Friesen Chair in Public Policy and the David Pierpont Gardner Chair in Higher Education.
2024 Visiting Scholars Press Release
CSHE Newsletter Feature
George Flower Award for Advanced Studies in Education, Leadership Higher and Adult Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 2024
Awarded $15,000 in top-up research funding for receiving a major external award (Fulbright Scholarship).
CanStudyUS Home and Away Fellowship, The Dais, Toronto Metropolitan University, 2024-2025
Awarded for community development project, Policy Advocacy for Postsecondary Affordability, with the Persistence Project. This 8-month fellowship is awarded to a select group of CanStudyUS fellows to travel to Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania to engage with US scholars and policymakers to inform their proposed community development projects.
AERA Award for Best Paper in Measurement and Research Methodologies, American Educational Research Association, 2024
Awarded for best paper presented at Measurement and Research Methodologies (Division D) Poster Session at the 2024 AERA Annual Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
CanStudyUS Fellowship, The Dais, Toronto Metropolitan University, 2024
Leadership development program awarded to scholars and activists with an interest in policy and current affairs in the United States and Canada.
OISE Doctoral Research Fellowship, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, 2023-2027
Awarded $100,000 to pursue doctoral research at University of Toronto.
Massey College Junior Fellowship, Massey College, University of Toronto, 2023-2027
Junior fellows are graduate scholars nominated and selected on academic achievement, scholarships, leadership, and community engagement to contribute to multidisciplinary research excellence at the University of Toronto. Received departmental nomination from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE).
Selected by Junior Fellowship to be the Don of Hall for the 2025-2026 academic year.
OISE Associate Dean, Research, International & Innovation Conference Travel Award, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, 2023
Awarded $750 for conference presentation: Undergraduate Research as a High Impact Educational Practice at the 2023 Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Annual Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
University of Toronto SGS Conference Travel Award, School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto, 2023
Awarded $600 for conference presentation: Undergraduate Research as a High Impact Educational Practice at the 2023 Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) Annual Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
OISE Graduate Research Fellowship, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, 2022
Awarded $14,000 to support master’s thesis research.
University of Toronto Graduate Research Fellowship, School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto, 2023
Awarded $25,000 to support master’s thesis research.
Trinity College Undergraduate Grant, Trinity College, University of Toronto, 2017-2020
Awarded $17,000 from 2016 to 2020 for academic merit and financial need.
Trinity College Women in Leadership, Trinity College, University of Toronto, 2019
Awarded for student leadership with participation in mentorship program to empower female students to pursue leadership opportunities at Trinity College, University of Toronto
Institute for Future Legislators Scholarship, University of British Columbia, Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions, 2018
Awarded $1,000 for participation in summer-intensive legislative program. The Institute offers intensive, hands-on mentoring and training from current and former legislators, senior civil servants, high-profile journalists and successful advocates.
University of Toronto Women in House, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto, 2018
Selected on academic excellence and student leadership to participate in a program to promote greater female representation in the federal government. The House of Commons invites female UofT students to shadow Canadian pariamentarians in Parliament Hill in Ottawa.
University of Toronto President’s Scholarship of Excellence, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Toronto, 2016
Awarded for academic excellence upon entrance to the University of Toronto
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