Artistic Achievement
- 2010 Wordhuster.com Literary Storm Contest: Runner Up: The Raven
- 2010 “The Art Play” Noel Night G.R. N’namdi Gallery
- 2009 Moondance Festival: stage play category finalist Last of Ken
- 2008 Bronze award, Moonbeam Independent Book Publishers, Audio Book, The Sanctuary
- 2008 quarterfinalist, Amazon.com Breakthrough Novel, The Raven
- 2007 O’Neill Musical Theatre, semi-finalist: Satin Doll
- 2007 Moondance Festival, A Home For Christmas, family movie, finalist in feature script
- 2006 Moondance Festival, No Thanks, family movie, finalist in feature script for kids. Downhearted Blues, semi-finalist, stage play category
- 2005 staged reading Downhearted Blues, play, Meadowbrook Theatre by Heartlande Theatre company
- 2004 publication: Slave Uprisings and Runaways: Fighting for Freedom and the Underground Railroad, contracted by Enslow Press for series on African American Slavery
- 2002 Moondance Festival, Satin Doll, finalist in stage play category
- 2001 South Carolina Playwrights Conference, Satin Doll, musical
- 2000 ArtServe Individual Artist Literary Grant, The Raven, an historical fiction novel
- 1999 National Black Arts Festival, Atlanta: Exhibit: Echoes Across the Prairie, documentary
- 1999 Etel Jorg Museum, Indianapolis: Exhibit: Echoes Across the Prairie
- 1998 Gold Apple Award, National Educational Media Network: Echoes Across the Prairie
- 1997 Henry Ford Museum-Greenfield Village: Exhibit: Echoes Across the Prairie
- 1996 Art and Technology Grant: T.J.’s Turn in Time, prototype
- 1994 The Sanctuary: children’s book, published by Cobblehill, an imprint of Penguin Putnam
- 1994 initiated The Sanctuary project, grief and loss art project: Detroit, Children’s Center
- 1993 Sundance Children’s Playwriting Workshop: The Sanctuary, play
- 1992 Warner Brothers Regional Comedy Development Workshop, Chicago
- 1992 Michigan Council of the Arts Individual Artist Grant: Bitter Root, script
- 1992 Brother Future, released to home video
- 1991 Women’s Scriptwriting Project, Funding Exchange: New York, Riversmeet, script
- 1991 Brother Future airs on national PBS network
- 1988 Michigan Council for the Arts, Individual Artist Grant: Elmwood
- 1987 American Film Institute, Summer Dramatic Scriptwriting Workshop: The Sanctuary, script
- 1986 Michigan Council for the Arts, Individual Artist Grant: The Shadow Man