NIH Loan Repayment Program Scholar (Health Disparities)

2009

Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia University HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral   Studies

2001-2009

Rackham Merit Fellowship, University of Michigan

2008

Principal Investigator, Rackham Student Research Grant, University of Michigan

2008

Community of Scholars Fellowship, Institute for Research on Women and Gender, University of Michigan

2008

Co-Investigator (with Mark B. Padilla, PI), Rackham Faculty-Student Research Grant, “Illness Narratives among Aging Gay and Bisexual PLWHA in New York City”

2008

Co-Investigator (with Mark B. Padilla, PI), Michigan Center for the Demography of Aging pilot grant, “Illness Narratives among Aging Gay and Bisexual PLWHA in New York City”

2008

Co-Investigator (with Mark B. Padilla, PI), Michigan Center for Clinical and Health Research pilot grant, “Illness Narratives among Aging Gay and Bisexual PLWHA in New York City”

2007

Research Assistant, Community Allies Against Asthma, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI

2007

Core Member, LGBT Health Advisory Council, Affirmations Community Center, Ferndale, MI

2003-2006

Predoctoral Fellow, National Institute for Mental Health training program

2003-2006

Data Analyst/Research Assistant, Institute for Social Research, Social Environment and Health program, Ann Arbor, MI

2004-2006

Data Analysis Group member, National Survey of American Life Research Group, Institute for Social Research, Ann Arbor, MI

2005

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, University of Michigan, awarded but declined

2005

Instructional Assistant, University of Michigan Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, “Global Health”

2003

Asylum Coordinator, Midwest Immigrant and Human Rights Center, Chicago, IL

2003

Graduate Student Instructor, University of Michigan Program in American Culture, “American Values”

2002

Moody Fellowship, Center for African and African American Studies, University of Michigan

2002

Principal Investigator, Center for the Education of Women student research grant

2002

Principal Investigator, Rackham Discretionary Funds grant, University of Michigan

2002

Principal Investigator, Rackham Dean’s Discretionary Funds grant, University of Michigan

2002

Graduate Student Instructor, University of Michigan Program in American Culture, “Arts and Culture in American Life”

2002

HIV/AIDS Health Educator and Qualitative Program Evaluator, University of Michigan Pedagogy of Action summer program,  Based in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town, South Africa