Honors & Awards

• University of Utah Faculty Fellowship, ($15,000 for semester of research leave). University of Utah, 01/17/2023
• Fellow for Mellon-funded Transformative Intersectional Collective, University of Utah. 01/27/2022

In the Media

• Interviewed for SWANA Regio Radio KPFK 90.7 on March 8th International Women’s Day in Southwest Asia/North Africa, March 8, 2023. 03/08/2023. https://open.spotify.com/episode/5Kuz1SluZesBcaJax...
• Interviewed for The Daily Utah Chronicle, “ ‘None of Us are Free Until All of Us are Free’—Solidarity With the Iranian Freedom Movement,” Sarah Buening, March 7, 2023. 03/07/2023. https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2023/03/07/buening-...
• Interviewed for Radioactive KRCL 90.9 FM on Utah Museum of Fine Arts Exhibit “Many Wests,” February 27, 2023. 02/27/2023. https://krcl.org/blog/radioactive-022723/
• Associated Press. " ‘Othered’ in America: An old story, still playing out daily.". 02/03/2020. https://apnews.com/8e395030626323f75349215706a9001...
• Quoted in Salt Lake Tribune: Utahns protest potential war with Iran. 01/04/2020. https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/01/05/utahns-prot...
• SL Tribune Op-ed: Iranian Americans Victims of Discrimination. 11/12/2019. https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2019/11/...
• "Inaugural Queer Spectra Arts Festival explores multiple facets of queer aesthetic," Les Roka for the Utah Review, May 31, 2019. 05/31/2019. https://www.theutahreview.com/inaugural-queer-spec...
• "Queer Spectra Arts Festival," Kate Mattingly for loveDANCEmore, May 29, 2019. 05/29/2019. http://lovedancemore.org/reviews/2019/5/29/queer-s...

Internal Service

• Search Committee Co-Chair, Black Cultural Center Director. 01/15/2019 - present. University service.