Awards

2022 NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series (True Story, Finale, “Like Cain Did Abel”)
2022 Black Reel Awards Nominee for Outstanding Directing, TV Movie/Limited Series (The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey)
2021 NAACP Image Award Winner for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series (Star Trek:Picard, Pilot ‘Remembrance’)
2019 ReFrame Rise Director
2019 Variety Inclusion Impact Honoree
2015 NAACP Image Award Nomination for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series (Criminal Minds Ep. 919)
2013 The Parenthood producers chose my episode to represent the series for Best Drama Series Emmy consideration
2012 NBC/Universal’s Directing Initiative Fellow
2012 HBO-DGA Directing Fellowship Finalist
2005 Emerging Filmmaker Award, Cine Noir Festival
2004 Directing Fellow of the Berlin Talent Campus
2004 Outstanding Director Award, GAFFERS
2002 AFI Directing Workshop for Women
2001 Honorable Mention Writers Digest Screenplay Competition (Block Party)
2000 Featured in “Spotlight” section of premiere issue of Screentalk magazine
2000 Semi-Finalist Scriptapalooza Screenplay Competition (Jail Bird aka Can’t Get Arrested)
1999 Fellow of IFP Screenwriters Lab
1999 Honorable Mention Writers Digest Screenplay Competition (Miss Ella)
1997 Fellow of the USC/Guy Hanks & Marvin Miller Screenwriting Program