She was named the South Carolina Arts Commission’s Media Arts Fellow for 2007-2008 and has received numerous fellowships and grants including a Fulbright Award and funding from the South Carolina Humanities Council (2003 and 2008) and the Fledgling Fund (2010 and 2012). Her educational travelogue Beyond the Classroom: China (2007) was nominated for a Southeastern Emmy. Cabin Field (2005), a non-fiction essay about farm workers in rural Georgia, was honored with three festival awards including the Jurors’ Citation Award at the Black Maria Film and Video Festival. She is currently at work on Cotton Road, a documentary about the global cotton trade which brings together the stories of South Carolina cotton farmers, Chinese textile workers, and global consumers.