as an education reporter, she received the alfred i. dupont–columbia university award for a 2001 series of radio reports on efforts to privatize certain schools in the nyc public school system—"the edison schools vote"—based on interviews of teachers, minority parents, school officials and the public relations representatives of the company that sought the contract to run the schools. she also won awards from the city's deadline club, the society of professional journalists, and the new york press club—which gave her a special award after the 2001 terrorist attacks—for a profile of two world trade center survivors.