RECOGNITIONS AND OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENTS (Appointments, Grants, Fellowships, Prizes, etc.)
- 2025 Jean E. Coleman Outreach Lecture, American Library Association
- 2025 Schomburg Center Scholars-in-Residence Fellow, New York Public Library
- 2024 Black Metropolis Research Consortium (BMRC) Fellow, University of Chicago
- 2024 Lippincott Award, American Library Association
- 2023-2024 Visiting Scholar at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education
- 2023 Advocacy Award, The Black Caucus of the American Library Association
- 2022 Carnegie Whitney Grant Recipient, American Library Association
- 2022 The School of Communication and Information Distinguished Alumni Award, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
- 2021 Martin Luther King, Jr. Social Justice Award, University of South Carolina
- 2019 Inclusive Excellence Teaching Grant, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of South Carolina
- 2019 Intellectual Freedom Award, Illinois Library Association
- 2019 Excellence in Teaching Award, Association of Library and Information Science Education (ALISE)
- 2017 Diversity Research Grant, American Library Association
- 2017 Carnegie Whitney Grant Recipient, American Library Association
- 2017 Achievement in Library Diversity Research Award, American Library Association
- 2016 Larine Y. Cowan Make a Difference Award for Teaching and Mentoring in Diversity, University of Illinois
- 2016 Equality Award Winner, American Library Association
- 2016 Research Fellowship at Kent State University's Reinberger Children's Library Center
- 2015 Recipient of the YWCA of the University of Illinois’ Leadership Award for Social Justice Education
- 2013 Best Paper Award for the Information Literacies Track (Conceptions of Library and Information Science (CoLIS) 8 Conference)
- 2013 Recipient of the Norman Horrocks Leadership Award (Association for Library and Information Science Education)
- 2008 Recipient of an American Library Association Spectrum Doctoral Fellowship
- 2007 Library Journal’s 2007 Movers & Shakers List
