In 2016 she was named Multimedia Photographer of the Year by the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), and her portfolio received 2nd place for the Multimedia Photographer of the Year in the Pictures of the Year International (POYi) contest. Her short film, "Without Nature, No Life," was named an Official Honoree in the 2016 Webby Awards. For her photo and video work documenting three families struggling from the Great Recession — two years after it officially ended — she received the Robert F. Kennedy award for Domestic Photography, the Hillman Prize in Photojournalism, and the Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism for Short Form Video.