FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS​  
  • 2023 Bronx Recognizes Its Own (BRIO) nonfiction award, Bronx Council on The Arts 
  • 2022 Bronx Documentary Center Film Fellowship (finalist)
  • 2017 National Association Latino Arts & Cultures Leadership Institute (NLI) Fellow
  • 2016 Lambda Literary Foundation Fellow (CA) LGBT Emerging Writers retreat 
  • 2015 VONA/Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation Fellow, writing retreat University of Miami, Florida 
  • 2014 Bronx Recognizes Its Own (BRIO) nonfiction award, Bronx Council on The Arts 
  • 1993 Discover Card Community Excellence Essay
GRANTS
  • 2023 Trans Justice Funding Project
  • 2023 New York State Seed Funding Grant
  • 2022 Mayer Foundation Grant
  • 2022 New York City Arts Educator Emergency Relief Grant
  • 2022 New York City Small Business Resilience Grant 
  • 2022 City of West Hollywood Transgender Arts Initiative Grant 
  • 2021 New York City Dept. of Cultural Affairs City Artist Corps
  • 2021 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Barbara and Carl Zydney Grant for disabled artists 
  • 2021 Cultural Solidarity Fund Grant
  • 2021 Center for Cultural Innovation California Quick Grant 
  • 2021 Arts Activation Fund: Corona Memorials Department of Cultural Affairs City of Los Angeles
  • 2021 National Association of Latino Arts & Culture (NALAC) Actos de Confianza: Relief Grant 
  • 2021 California Small Business COVID-19 Relief Grant 
  • 2021 Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA) Emergency Grant
  • 2020 National Arts Disability Center (NADC) Technical Assistance
  • 2020 Foundation for Contemporary Arts (FCA) COVID-19 Relief
  • 2020 Queer Writers of Color Relief Fund Grant 
  • 2020 United States Artists Relief Grant Cycle III 
  • 2020 Small Business Administration Grant 
  • 2020 Poets & Writers COVID-19 Relief Artist Grant 
  • 2020 City of West Hollywood Transgender Artist Initiative Grant
  • 2019 Episcopal Actors Guild of America Grant 
  • 2019 NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs SU-CASA Teaching Artist
  • 2018 California Art Leaders Investments (CALI) Grant 
  • 2017 National Arts Disability Center (NADC) Technical Assistance
  • 2017 Creative Capacity Fund's Quick Grant 
  • 2016 Episcopal Actors Guild of America Grant
  • 2016 National Arts Disability Center (NADC) Technical Assistance
  • 2016 Bryn Kelly Scholarship, Lambda Literary Foundation 
  • 2015 Change Inc. Grant, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation 
  • 2015 National Arts Disability Center (NADC) Technical Assistance
  • 2015 Mayer Foundation Grant
  • 2013 Actors fund of America Grant
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
  • 2023 18th Street Arts Center (CA)
  • 2021 Lambda Literary Foundation LGBT Emerging Writers retreat
  • 2019 Springboard Arts, Hinge Artists Residency (MN) 
  • 2018 Sundress Academy Arts, Writer in Residence (TN) 
  • 2017 Lambda Literary Foundation Fellow LGBT Writing Residency, Otis College of Art & Design (CA)