AWARDS & HONORS
I am honored to be a five-time Los Angeles Area Emmy Award winner, with 19 career wins and honors and 57 nominations and finalist distinctions across documentary, arts, culture, and broadcast journalism. Find the full list below.
2026 Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards
Winner
For Dear Life: Art, Medicine & Disability — Education/Information
Nominations
Counter Surveillance — Crime/Social Issues
George Washington Carver's Legacy of Art, Science & Discovery — Culture/History
Reframing the Future — Informational Series
Seeing the Unseeable — Information Segment
2025 Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards
Nominations
Stop Saving the Planet? Start Changing the World — Informational Series
How Big Business Broke Recycling (And Blamed You) — Education/Information
2024 Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards
Winners
Little Amal — Feature Segment
Weekly Arts: Celebrating Black Artists — Informational Series
Nomination
Hip Hop and the Metaverse — Informational Series
2023 Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards
Nomination
A Rubén Ortiz-Torres Story — Best Arts Feature
2022 Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards
Winners
Corita Kent: The Pop Art Nun
California Graphic Design (Artbound)
2013 Los Angeles Area Emmy Awards
Nomination
Gary Baseman & Me (Artbound) — Best Arts Feature
2026 RTNA Golden Mike Awards
Nominations
Stop Saving the Planet? — Best Video Editing of a Hard News Story, Series or Special (Individual Editing Nomination)
Stop Saving the Planet? — Best Business & Consumer Reporting
Stop Saving the Planet? — Best Government & Political Reporting
Stop Saving the Planet? — Best Environmental Reporting
Art Happens Here with John Lithgow — Best Long Form Program or Documentary
2023 RTNA Golden Mike Awards
Winner
Hip Hop and the Metaverse — Best TV News Digital Reporting
2021 RTNA Golden Mike Awards
Winner
John Van Hamersveld: The Endless Summer Poster — Best TV Light Feature Reporting
2016 RTNA Golden Mike Awards
Winner
Noah Purifoy: Junk Dada — Best News Videography of a Feature Story, Series or Special
Nominations
A Rubén Ortiz-Torres Story — Best Video Editing of a Feature Story, Series or Special
The Art & Science of Preserving the Watts Towers (award/year/category being confirmed)
Career Note
Eight Golden Mike nominations in a single ceremony year across multiple PBS SoCal productions.
2025 Southern California Journalism Awards (Los Angeles Press Club)
Winner
Art Happens Here with John Lithgow — Education Reporting
Second Place
Stop Saving the Planet? — Government/Political Reporting
Third Place
Stop Saving the Planet? — Environmental Reporting
Nominations
Art Happens Here with John Lithgow — Animation/Moving Graphic
Art Happens Here with John Lithgow — Anchor/Host
Art Happens Here with John Lithgow — Videographer
Art Happens Here: John Lithgow Dances Dunham with Debbie Allen Dance Academy — Entertainment News or Feature
Stop Saving the Planet? — National Political/Government Reporting
Stop Saving the Planet? — Solutions Journalism
Stop Saving the Planet? — Anchor/Host
The Legacy of the Paul Robeson Players in 1970s L.A. Black Theater — Human Interest Feature
The Legacy of the Paul Robeson Players in 1970s L.A. Black Theater — Entertainment Feature
2024 Southern California Journalism Awards
Winners
Little Amal — Human Interest Feature
Ramsess' Portraits Honor Historic Figures in Black History — Personality Profile/Interview
Nominations
Hip Hop and the Metaverse — Documentary Short
Little Amal — Human Interest Feature
Puppet of 10-Year-Old Syrian Refugee, Little Amal, Learns ASL — Immigration Reporting
2022 Southern California Journalism Awards
Second Place
Emory Douglas: The Black Panther Artist — Personality Profile/Interview
Third Place
John Van Hamersveld: The Endless Summer Poster
Nominations
Corita Kent: The Pop Art Nun — Religion/Spirituality Reporting
Corita Kent: The Pop Art Nun — Human Interest Feature
Emory Douglas: The Black Panther Artist — Documentary Short
Emory Douglas: The Black Panther Artist — Activism Journalism
Dignidad Rebelde: Art Is Protest — Immigration Reporting
John Van Hamersveld: The Endless Summer Poster — Entertainment Feature
2025 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards (Los Angeles Press Club)
Second Place
The Legacy of the Paul Robeson Players in 1970s L.A. Black Theater — Diversity in the Arts Industry
Finalists
Energy Fields: Vibrations of the Pacific
Open Sky
Counter Surveillance
2024 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards (Los Angeles Press Club)
Winners
Little Amal — Soft News Feature (Music/Arts/Culture)
Art Happens Here with John Lithgow — Animation/Moving Graphic
Second Place
Little Amal — Diversity in Arts & Culture
Nomination
Art Happens Here with John Lithgow — Personality Profile (Film Personalities)
2022 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards (Los Angeles Press Club)
Winners
Emory Douglas: The Black Panther Artist — Hard News Feature
Dignidad Rebelde: Art Is Protest — Soft News Feature (Arts & Culture)
2015 LA Film Awards
Winner — One Hundred Mules Walking the Los Angeles Aqueduct — Artist's Cut — Best Feature Documentary
2012 Outfest
Winner — Wildness — Outstanding Documentary Feature