Awards & Press

With gratitude to:

• International SeaKeeper’s Society for the Next Gen Award for leadership in ocean conservation

• CIMASUB Underwater Film Festival for the Best Female Filmmaker award for the short film Heart of the Sea

• Ocean Culture Life for a 2025 Storytelling Grant

• National Geographic Society for a 2023 Freshwater Initiative grant, 2023 Meridian grant, and 2017 Young Explorer’s grant

• Wildscreen for selection as a 2024 WildPitch Finalist (watch the 3 minute pitch here)

• RED.COM for featuring our short film Letter from the Age of Ecocide

• Oceanic Global for having me on the jury for the 2025 Oceanic Global Ocean Short Film Festival

• The Flow Trip for having me as a judge on their 2025 Flow Photo Contest (formerly The Whalebone Magazine Photo Contest)

• SailGP for having me as a keynote speaker for the 2024 NYC Champions for Change event

• The COP28 Dubai Island of Hope Stage for having me as a speaker (2023)

• ABC Localish x NatGeo WILD for doing a profile on my work with sharks alongside Dr. Catherine Macdonald

• Florida International University Ratcliffe Art + Design Incubator for making me a RA + DI 2024 Entrepreneurial Resident

• Nautica and Oceana for naming me an ocean conservation Wavemaker

• The Impact Storytelling Podcast for featuring my work

• The University of Miami Newspaper for profiling my work