Awards & Honorable Mentions
'Stop calling ME resilient. I'm NOT resilient. Because every time you say, 'oh, they're resilient,' you CAN do something else to me."
~ Tracie Washington, New Orleans-based civil rights attorney, 2010
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Awards & Honorable Mentions
2022 Outstanding Business Award - Seattle Business
2022 Interviewed - South End Emerald Newspaper
2021 Cornish College of the Arts - Finalist - Neddy
2020 Finalist - Rachel's Catalyst Award - Environmental Advocate Award for Women of Color
2020 Awarded Participant in the RISE Cohort thru Sustainable Seattle
2020 Interviewed - Crosscut
2020 Interviewed - King 5 News
2020 Interviewed - PBS News
2020 Interviewed -CNN News
2020 Interviewed - Critical Bounds Podcast
2020 Panelist Public Art Bootcamp
2019 Residency at Seattle University, Hedreen Gallery - Exhibit 'For the Record'
2018 Accepted to Public Art Boot Camp, thru Seattle Office of Arts & Culture
2018 Conductive Garboil Award, thru Artist Trust and 4 Culture
2018 Accepted to Artist Residency 6-7/2018: AADK Spain International platform of research and contemporary creation, 30540 Blanca | Murcia | Spain www.aadk.es info@aadk.es www.facebook.com/AADKSpain
2018 Nominated Environmental Artist Award – Sustainable Seattle
2017 Nominated James W Ray Award - Artist Trust
2017 4 Culture Artist Community Grant Award Recipient
2017 Accepted Creative Advantage Artist Roster – Seattle Arts & Cultural Affairs
2017 Event Invitational Islandwood Multi-Cultural Environmental Event at Antioch, University – Presentation: Art as Leadership through Story & Environment
2017 Accepted City of Seattle Non-Profit Assistance Center: 9 Month Non-Profit Executive Director Cohort Training
2017 Event Invitational Speaker Presenter with International Artist Claire Tancon at Black Zone: Art as Social Justice
2016 Accepted Women on the Rise Conference
2016 Featured Artist Talk Show Radio: The New Urban Unlimited, w/ Hiawatha D
2015 Invitational Speaker/Exhibitor Whidbey Institutes Climate Collaborative Conference
2015 Art Acquisition City of Seattle Office of Arts and Culture City
2014 Nominated ‘Fell From the Sky Award’
2014 Awarded 1st Place Onyx Artist Exhibition WA State Convention and Trade Center
2014 - Current Accepted Ethnic Artist Roster, City of Seattle - Office of Arts and Culture
2011 - 2012 Appointed Training of the Facilitators Professional Diversity Staff Development North Seattle Community College
2011 Awarded Classified Employee of the Year, by STARS Committee and College President; Created Strategic College wide 5 Year Plan for Staff Professional Development Training based on NSCC President’s Strategic Initiative – Incorporated Sustainability,
Diversity, Learning Styles and Emotional Intelligence Models
2010 Selected Curator National Art Show; Hollywood Hills Northshore
2010 - 2012 Nominated Standing NSCC Sustainability Committee: Sub Committees; Education Curriculum & Healthy Food on Campus Committee
2009 – 2010 Nominated Classified Staff Development Committee, Communications Chair
2004 Juried & Selected Artist Trust Edge Business Class
2002 Employee of the Month – YWCA