• Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc. (IRE) recognized the Boston Globe's podcast, Murder in Boston, with the 2023 Longform Journalism in Audio Award; in their comments the judges wrote that the podcast is "more than the sum of its parts, a work of conscience, sociology and reckoning."

  • The Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma recognized the Boston Globe's multimedia series, Nightmare in Mission Hill: the Untold Story of the Charles and Carol Stuart Shooting, as a winner of the 2024 Dart Awards for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma.

  • I was shortlisted for the 2023 Canadian Journalism Foundation (CJF) Award for Climate Solutions Reporting for a series of stories I produced and reported for CBC Radio about individuals grappling with the realities of climate change. The series included The Last Coal Miners for The Doc Project and two segments for CBC Radio’s What on Earth: How Cracking Open a Climate Story Helps Kids Cope and Why Addressing Energy Poverty is a Climate Solution.
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  • Winner of the 2023 Canadian Association of Journalists' CWA CANADA / CAJ AWARD FOR LABOUR REPORTING, along with The Doc Project's editors Acey Rowe and Alison Cook and senior producer Jennifer Warren. We won for a documentary called “The Last Coal Miners", which explored the end of coal mining at Canada's largest strip mine in Wabamun, Alberta, and asked whether or not the idea of a 'just transition' for fossil fuel workers -- in an era of climate crisis -- is possible. 

  • I led a team of producers in a co-production between The House and CBC North called “The North Rising”, which won the 2021 RTDNA Award for best Radio News Information Program.
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  • 2021 RTDNA award in the National Audio Opinion category for a piece I produced for The House called “A Canadian Tragedy", in which Chandrima Chakraborty Compares Canada's Response to the Downing of Flight 752 in Iran to the Air India Bombing.”

  • In 2020 The Band Played On won Gold at the New York Festivals Radio Awards in the Narrative/Documentary Podcast category and a gold from the Canadian Online Publishing Awards. Audible Feast named The Band Played On in its top 25 podcasts of the year and Apple Podcasts put it on “2019’s Most Popular New Shows” list.

  • The first episode of The House I oversaw was a documentary about Alberta’s provincial election campaign called “The Race to Lead Alberta,” which received the Peter Gzowski Award for best Radio News Information Program at the 2020 RTDNA Awards.

  • 2019 Arthur F. Burns Fellowship. I spent the summer reporting from Germany, including a news item about the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in eastern Germany for The World This Weekend and two in-depth documentaries for The Current.

  • Bronze medal winner at the 2019 New York Festivals International Radio Program Awards for “The Catch”, an investigative documentary co-produced with Seth Freed Wessler of the Investigative Fund, that examined Canada’s cooperation with the U.S. Coast Guard capturing suspected drug smugglers on the high seas, in spite of concerns about prisoner mistreatment on board the U.S. vessels.

  • My documentary “I want to understand – Ottawa police sergeant openly apologizes for racist comments” won the 2018 Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ)/APTN Reconciliation Award and the RTDNA’s Adrienne Clarkson Award.

  • I was part of a team that won the 2015 RTDNA Gord Sinclair Award for live special events for our special coverage of the Parliament Hill shooting.

  • 2014 Bronze medal winner at the New York Festivals International Radio Program Award for Best News Documentary or Special: “Minimum Wage Wars”.

  • 2011 Gracie Award Winner – for a segment I produced about new technology that allows women to freeze their eggs so they can postpone conception. 

  • 2010 Nomination by CBC for the Prix Italia for my documentary “The Small Person Acquisition Project” about two transgender men and their journey into parenthood. It was also featured by the Third Coast International Audio Festival.

  • 2005 winner of the Bill McWhinney Memorial Scholarship for International Development and Journalism, including a $20,000 grant to travel to South Africa and make a documentary about the role of traditional healers in addressing HIV/AIDS.