Miss Coco in Vancouver, British Columbia accepting the 2013 Canadian Dance Assembly's I love Community Award from guest presenter and Canadian Olympian, Darcy Marquardt
AWARDS
2023 National Award for Outstanding Leadership in Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion - National Dance Education Organization
2022 Racial Justice Awards for Creative Arts - Urban Alliance of Race Relations Canada
2022 Women Who Rock Awards recipient
2021
Finalist for inaugural Tim Jones' Creative Placemaking Award (Toronto Artscape Foundation and Urban Land Institute) for "Griots in Sight" , a dance narrative overlaying murals in Art Etobicoke's Augmented Reality in Islington Village.
2020
1 of 100 Accomplished Black Canadian Women honourees
2019
Recipient, Toronto Arts Foundation's Community Arts Award presented by Neighbourhood Arts Network and generously sponsored by MOD Developments Inc.
2015
Best Poster & Research Presentation, York University's 2nd annual Undergraduate Research Fair
2014 Role Model - Black Canadian Awards
2013 Recipient, International Golden Key Honours Society's Canadian Study/Volunteer Abroad Scholarship
NOMINATIONS
2020
Afropolitan Canada, Women Diversity Summit Entreprenuer Award
2015
Runner-up in Neighbourhood Arts Network's BMO Seed Grant
Nomination by Professor Ramin Jahanbegloo for York University's CERLAC - Michael Baptista Essay Prize
(outstanding scholarly paper on Toronto's Caribbean Carnival)
