Her reporting explores national issues like health care, disability, and social justice through local, human-centered stories. In 2018, she received the Pioneer News Group Excellence in Journalism Award for Community Journalism from University of Washington Department of Communication faculty. A 2017 column she published in The Daily of the University of Washington, “Mental health, stigma, and U(W)”, was honored as a finalist in the Region 10 Mark of Excellence Awards by the Society of Professional Journalists.