Successful Grants and Competitive Awards
Awarded Grants
1. COMPASS Project, Jackson State University, Sub Award (2023), National Science Foundation, Senior Faculty.
2. Mandela Washington Institute in Business for Young African Leaders (2024), Jackson State University, funded by the U.S. State Department, Co-Academic Director.
3. Mandela Washington Institute in Business for Young African Leaders (2023), Jackson State University, funded by the U.S. State Department, Principal Investigator and Academic Director.
4. Mandela Washington Alumni Enrichment Institute (2022), Jackson State University, funded by the U.S. State Department, Co-Investigator, Academic Director.
5. Thurgood Marshall College Foundation Project: Lawyer Perspectives on Racial Equity in Commercial Real Estate, Co-Investigator, 2022.
6. SBA Women’s Business Center at Jackson State University (2021), Co-Investigator, November 1, 2020 – September 30, 2025.
7. VentureWell Faculty Grant, Entrepreneurship Minor for NonBusiness Majors (2021), Co-Principal Investigator, Funding Period February 1, 2021 – August 31, 2024.
8. 2006 Title III Grant Award of Experimental Accounting Laboratory, Principal Investigator, University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas U.S. Virgin Islands.
9. Kauffman Firm Survey Travel Grants – Atlanta Competitive Advantage Conference (2012), Babson Entrepreneurship Research Conference, TCU, Texas (2012).
10. ENACTUS Sam Walton Fellow – Grants Awards, 2013-2015.
11. Maimouna Keita West African Dance Company – two grants from NYC Council of the Arts, Grant Writer and Board Member, 2000 – 2004.
12. American Made Network HEROx 2023 Solar Prize Award
Grant Reviewer Role
Panel Reviewer, USAID SBIR Phase II (June 2023, May 2024)
Reviewer, The Lahore School of Economics, Lahore School Research Development Fund (2019)