Policarpa            Media Studios

2023-2024

Council for Advancement and Support for Education (CASE) District II Mid-Atlantic Awards
Best of in Writing: News Feature (1,000+ words)
"Shared Stories, Shared Purpose"

2022-2023

UMBC Baltimore Field School Fellow
a framework for UMBC graduate students, staff, and faculty to collaborate with community partners to build ethical and sustainable research& teaching projects.

2021

CASE Individual Grand Gold and Platinum Award District Honorable Mention  Development, design, and implementatopm UMBC's first virtual conference
"The Evolving World of Inclusive Language."

Team Gold in the Magazine category

2020

Dresher Center for the Humanities Scholarship9th International Digital Story Conference at the Storytelling Academy School of Design& Creative Arts at Loughborough University, England.Funding to present "The Literature of Possibilities," digital storytelling series about thriving people of color.

2019

CASE Individual Silver
Staff Writing Award
"Five UMBC students see their degrees as a step toward community impact"

2017-2018

CASE Team Silver
Excellence in News Writing: Research, Medicine, & Science News Writing
"Christy Ford Chapin begins Library of Congress fellowship, continuing history faculty’s trend of research achievement"