Awards and Recognitions
2024 Library Journal's Movers and Shakers Award
2024 ALA Carnegie-Whitney Grant
Sustainable Leadership as Solution for Representation and Inclusion in LIS: A Bibliography and Digital Toolkit
2024, CNN First of All with Victor Blackwell Interview
Interview on Teaching Black History
2024, Georgia Tech Staff Feature
2024-2027, Valdosta State MLIS Advisory Board
Library and information Studies, Valdosta State University
2023-2026 Executive Council
Association for the Study of African American Life and History
2021 The African American Struggle for Library Equality: The Untold Story of the Julius Rosenwald Fund Library Program directly influenced the American Library Association's "case that Rosenwald's support for libraries - particularly, for Black librarians and libraries in Black communities - is an important part of his legacy that should be recognized in the [national] park."
Association for the Study of African American Life and History
2020 Distinguished Alumni Honor
Florida State University, iSchool
2019 Digital Library of Georgia Digitization Grant
Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum
2014-2015 Sol & Beverly Hirsch Scholarship
School of Information, Florida State University
2014-2015 Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
Beta Phi Mu International Library and Information Studies Honor Society
2011-2012, Increasing African American Diversity in Archives Fellowship
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Other Grant and Funded Research documented on CV. Available upon request.