Honors and Awards

Editor’s Choice article for September/October 2022 issue Women’s Health Issues, 2022

Nominee, Excellence in Honors Teaching Award, 2021

Nominee, Excellence in Honors Mentoring Award, 2021

Finalist for the Journal of Consumer Affairs Best Article Award, 2016 for Does ‘Banking the Unbanked’ Help Families to Save? Evidence from the United Kingdom 

Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize Finalist, Social Service Review 2015 for Food on the Fringe: Food Insecurity and the Use of Payday Loans

Institute for Research on Poverty, Emerging Scholar, 2014-2015

Lincoln Land Institute Junior Scholar, 2013

Richard Musgrave Prize, 2010 for "The Interaction of Metropolitan Area Costs & the Federal Earned Income Tax Credit: One Size Fits All? 

Syracuse University Eggers Fellowship, 2008-2009

Summer Economics Fellows Program, The Brookings Institution, 2008

Syracuse University Graduate Fellowship, 2004-2005, 2007-2008

Syracuse University Dean’s Summer Fellowship, 2004 

Georgetown University Graduate Assistantship in Health Policy, 2002-2004