FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
- 2025 New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artist/Literature
- 2025 Intercultural Leadership Institute Fellow (ILI)
- 2024 Featured Speaker at the LGBTQ+ Survivor Leadership Summit at The National LGBTQ Institute on Intimate Partner Violence
- 2024 City of West Hollywood Rainbow Key Award
- 2023 National Arts & Disability Center Artist Achievement Award
- 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
- 2024 Senator Anthony J. Portantino (D-CA 25th District) Certificate of Recognition
- 2024 Senator Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (D-CA 28th District) Certificate of Recognition issued to TRANSBRATIONS Art Collective
- 2024 Los Angeles County Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell Proclamation issued to TRANSBRATIONS Art Collective
- 2024 Los Angeles City Councilman Curren D. Price Jr,. Certificate of Recognition issued to TRANSBRATIONS Art Collective
- 2024 Congresswoman Judy Chu (D-CA 28th District) Certificate of Heroism
- 2024 Assemblyman Rick Chavez Zbur (51st Assembly District) Certificate of Recognition
- 2024 The Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference Community Scholarship
- 2021 Lambda Literary Foundation LGBTQ Emerging Writers Retreat Virtual Scholar
- 2019 The Alliance of Artist Communities Conference Scholarship
- 2016 Bryn Kelly Scholarship, Lambda Literary Foundation
- 2025 The Denis Diderot Grant
- 2024 The Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Public Space Activation Fund Grant: Arts and Social Wellness
- 2024 Trans Justice Funding Project
- 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
- 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
- 2025 The Chateau d'Orquevaux Artists and Writers Residency (France)
- 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)