Invited Speaker at the Thurgood Marshall Society Symposium at the University of Texas, Austin, Feb. 2020 

Invited Speaker at the St. Pete Conference for World Affairs, Feb. 2020 

Visiting the director of the Harvard Afro-Latin American Center (ALARI), Dec. 2019

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Meeting Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, the former First Lady of Ghana, Dec. 2019

Distinguished Alum Award, CUNY Graduate Center's Political Sciene Ph.D. Program

William R. Jones Outstanding Mentor Award, Florida Education Fund