- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, 2016-2020
- Botanical Society of America Graduate Student Research Award, 2017
- American Society of Plant Taxonomists Graduate Research Award, 2017
- Northern California Botanists Research Scholarship, 2020
- University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Botany:
- Hugh H. Iltis Biodiversity Fund, 2016-2017
- Davis Research Support, 2016-2018
- Judith Croxdale Support for Women in Science, 2016
- Flora Aeterna Award, 2018
- First prize, Three-Minute Thesis competition at UW-Madison, 2016
- First prize, Botanical Society of Otago Audrey Eagle Botanical Illustration Contest 2010, and co-first prize 2012. Winning informational illustrations described the fern Microsorum pustulatum and the lichen Cladia retipora respectively.
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