SCHOLARSHIPS/FELLOWSHIPS

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• Division I Faculty Athletics Representative Institute Awardee, November 15-18, 2023

• Digital Library Federation (DLF) - Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Forum Fellowship, 2022

• Institute for Emerging Leadership in Online Learning Program: IELOL Global, 2021

• Black Book Interactive Project Scholar (Round II), 2020

• National Information Standard Organization (NISO) Plus Scholarship Recipient, February 2020

• Teacher and Librarian Scholarship Recipient, Key West Literary Seminar, January 9-12, 2020

• Digital Collaborations Workshop on Black History in Florida, July 24-25, 2019​

• Robert Frederick Smith Internship, National Museum of African American History & Culture, Smithsonian Institute, May 27-August 16, 2019

• Preserving digital Objects With Restricted Resources (POWRR) Institute Recipient, April 18-19, 2019

• Sunshine State Digital Network, Honorarium, November 30, 1918 

• UNCF/Mellon Teaching and Learning Institute at Hampton University: BLACK GIRLS WRITE/RIGHT THE FUTURE!, June 27-29, 2018

• Jessie Ball DuPont Summer Seminar Recipient & Attendee, 2015

• Recipient, Dissertation Research Grant - Spring 2001

• Recipient, Leon Watts Endowed Scholarship - Fall 2000

• Recipient, Dwight L. Burton Scholarship - Curriculum & Instruction, Fall 2000

• Recipient, Judge Curtis & Marjorie Chillingworth Memorial Scholarship - Fall 2000

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AWARDS

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• Florida A&M University Teacher of the Year, 2009-2010

• Fulbright-Hays, Turkey, June 18, 2004 – July 20, 2004

• Recipient, W.E.B. DuBois Honor Society Award, February 1999, 2000

• Assistantship Recipient, Curriculum & Instruction, Fall 1998 – Spring 2001

• Recipient, Black Student Union Publication Award, 1995

• Recipient, Torchbearer Leadership Award, 1995

• Volunteer Award Recipient, Black Student Union, 1994

• Volunteer Award Recipient, F.S.U., Minority Academic Programs, 1992

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GRANTS

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• National Voter Registration Day, 2023, $2,000

• NEFLIN 2023 Innovation Grant, $7,431.91

• Smithsonian Institution’s Museum on Main Street Water/Ways exhibition, Team Grant Writer & Curator, $5,000, 2021

• The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Open Education Resource (OER) Affordable Learning Solutions (AL$) Grant Project, Appointed PI, $39,000, 2021 – present *Sponsored conference attendance to AI For All Open Education Summit at Tennessee State University, June 5-7, 2024

• SCWAReD Advanced Collaborative Support Program The Black Fantastic: Curated Vocabularies, Artifact Analysis and Identification, $29,500, 2021

• Carnegie Whitney Grant, American Library Association, Received, $4,700, 2019

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