Greater Columbus Arts Council Funds for Artists Grant (2025)
Asian Cultural Council Individual Fellowship (2024-2025)
American School in London Innovator-in-Residence (2022)
National Endowment for the Arts Grant (2021)
EPIC Impact Society Artist Award (2021)
Archipelago Artist Residency, Korpo, Finland (2019)
Hemera Foundation Tending Space Fellowship (2018)
University of Michigan Bicentennial Alumni Award (2017)
NES Artist Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland (2017)
Hangar Artist Residency, Lisbon, Portugal (2017)
National Endowment for the Arts Art Works Creativity Connects Grant (2016)
Tony Goldman Visionary Artist Award (2016)
Lakkos Artist Residency, Heraklion, Greece (2016)
American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Humanities Award (2016)
Puffin Foundation Grant (2015)
Louisiana Cultural Economy Color Our World Award (2014)
Top 100 Leaders in Public Interest Design, Impact Design Hub (2013)
The Creativity 50, Advertising Age (2013)
The Good 100, GOOD Magazine (2013)
World Economic Forum Young Global Leader (2012)
Art Production Fund Artist-in-Residence, Las Vegas NV (2012)
Maryland Institute College of Art Samson Feldman Artist-in-Residence (2012)
TED Senior Fellowship (2011)
Rockefeller Foundation Tulane University Urban Innovation Fellowship (2011)
Black Rock Arts Foundation Grant (2011)
Alaska Design Forum Artist-in-Residence (2011)
Oprah Magazine “Live Your Best Life” Local Hero (2011)
Top 11 Visual Artists in New Orleans, NOLA Defender (2011)
Creative Capital of Culture Artist-in-Residence, Turku Finland (2010)
Fast Company Emerging Master of Design (2010)
TED Global Fellowship (2009)
Center for Urban Pedagogy Making Policy Public Fellowship (2008)
Sappi Ideas That Matter Grant (2008)
Global Studio Johannesburg Fellowship (2007)
Columbia University Award for Outstanding Contribution to Leadership in Urban Planning Education (2007)
Earth Institute Nairobi Studio Fellowship (2006)
Spatial Information Design Lab New Orleans Fellowship (2006)
Global Studio Vancouver Fellowship (2006)
4GN Design Congress, Bogota, Columbia
American Planning Association National Conference, Atlanta, Georgia
Asian Cultural Council, Taipei, Taiwan
Canadian Institute of Urban Planners Conference, Vancouver, Canada
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Center for Architecture, New York, New York
City of San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
Creativity World Forum Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Dallas Women’s Foundation, Dallas, Texas
Detour: Design Renegade Conference, Hong Kong
Detroit Regional Chamber Policy Conference, Detroit, Michigan
Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Global Health Summit, New Orleans, Louisiana
Google, Macau, China; Dublin, Ireland
Green Building Alliance, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Greenbuild International Conference and Expo, San Francisco, California
Inhotim Contemporary Art Museum, Brumadinho, Minas Gerais, Brazil
International Design Association, Kohler, Wisconsin
International Interior Design Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Jung Society, New Orleans, Louisiana
Metropolitan Planning Council, Chicago, Illinois
New Mexico Municipal League, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Newcomb Art Museum, New Orleans, Louisiana
Psych Congress, San Diego, California
Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, Georgia
School of Visual Arts, New York, New York
Summer Public Art School, Turku, Finland
TED Conference, Long Beach, California
TED Global Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland
TYPO Berlin, Berlin, Germany
University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
University of Michigan Stamps School of Art and Design, Ann Arbor, Michigan
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
Visión Diseño Conference, Querétaro, Mexico
Vivid Sydney Festival, Sydney, Australia
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Watermark Conference for Women, Santa Clara, California; Boston, Massachusetts; Austin, Texas
We The City Conference, Vancouver, Canada
WESTAF Public Art Symposium, Honolulu, Hawaii
White Arkitekter, Gothenburg, Sweden
Women Motion Picture & Television Fund, Beverly Hills, California
Women’s Leadership Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada
World Education Congress, Las Vegas, Nevada
Youth Art Camp, Almaty, Kazakhstan