• 2024, La Pocha Nostra First Advanced Alumni Summit, Hosted at Casa Museo Sur in Mexico City

    • 2023, The  Honoree award, Culturally Diverse Women “Making a Difference,” in 2023 alongside Mayer Karen Bass, Cultural Inclusion Foundation, Los Angeles, CA

    • 2022, La Pocha Nostra, Laboratorio de Arte Vivo / Live-Art Laboratory, OAXACA CITY, OAXACA, Mexico

    • 2022, Grant, Zamin project, California Arts Council, Local Impact, Clarion Alley Mural Project, Central Stage, Artists Television Access, Oakland and San Francisco, CA

    • 2021, Nominee of the Gold Art Prize, 2021 Asian American and Pacific Islander Artists

    • 2020 , Grant, Zamin Project California Arts Council, Local Impact Grant, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, CA

    • Finalist, Tosa Studio Award, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, CA

    • 2019, Common Field, Philadelphia Scholarship

    • 2019, Bangkit Arise, An International Arts Exchange and residency, between Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and San Francisco, USA, Clarion Alley Mural   Project, Asian Art Museum

    • 2018, Honorary AIR Award, Media Art Residency, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA

    • 2017, Creative Dissent Fellows at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, led by Tania Bruguera

    • 2017, (Finalist) Graduate Fellowship, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

    • 2017, Aicad Residency, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY

    • 2017, Dennis Leon and Christin Nelson Scholarship

    • 2017, Juror’s Pick honor, California College of the Arts Commencement Exhibition

    • 2017, Methods of Acting(on): Alumnae Residency, College Avenue Galleries, Oakland, CA

    • 2017, Fellowship at Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, CA

    • 2017, California College of the Arts Travel Grant, Open Engagement Conference in Chicago, IL

    • 2015-17 , CCA MFA Scholarship, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA

    • 2017, Merit Scholarship, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA

    • 2011, In appreciation of the Shamsul ‘Emare Award, Golestan Palace, Iran

    • 2010, First Iranian Emerging Art Festival, Award, Saba Museum of Tehran, Iran

    • 2009, Photography First Prize, Award, University of Science and Culture, Tehran, Iran

    • 2023, "The New Common," Prospect Art Broadcast, In Conversation with Prima Jalichandra-Sakintabhai, Los Angeles, CA

    • 2023, Voice of the Iranian Diaspora, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA

    • 2021, Artist Conversation, Alsharqreise, Berlin, Germany

    • 2021, Visualizing Social Justice, After Hope Symposium. Art and Activism, Asian Arts Museum, San Francisco, CA

    • 2021, After Hope Symposium, Zamin project, Asian Arts Museum, San Francisco, CA

    • 2021, Stories & Solidarity: International Women's Day Symposium, Guest Speaker, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia

    • 2020, GitHub Universe, Guest Speaker, with Mobina Nouri, San Francisco, CA

    • 2020, The Archive to Come, Artist Talk, Telematic Arts and Media, San Francisco, CA

    • 2020, After Hope, Presentation, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA

    • 2020, Six Hats, Online Workshop in collaboration with Mobina Nouri, Codame, San Francisco, CA

    • 2020, Getting Paid For It, Panel Discussion, Hosted by  Immersive Arts Alliance, CA

    • 2020, Collective Storytelling, online workshop, Codame, San Francisco, CA

    • 2018, Embrace Your Freecom/ Know Your Rights, Guest Speaker, For Freedom, Project by Hank Willis Thomas, Guest Speaker, California College   of  the Arts, San Francisco, CA

    • 2018, Anastatica, Panel Discussion, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, CA

    • 2017, Eleven and a Half Hours, Panel Discussion, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, CA

    • 2017, Living Room Light Exchange, Guest Speaker, Oakland, CA

    • 2017, Does Art Have Users? SFMOMA Symposium, Escuela de Arte Útil, Presentation, Yerba Buena Center for the Art, San Francisco, CA 

    • 2016, Language Project Talk and performance at Language Shaping Ideas, Claudia Bernardi, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA

    • 2016, Again, Home: Narrative of Place and Displacement Reading, Lit Crawl, Clarion Alley Mural Project, San Francisco, CA, OCT. 15, 2016      

    • 2016, Unison of Dream, with Samira Davarfara, Live video Chat workshop,  Between Lajevardi Foundation, Tehran, Iran, and Drawing Center, CCA   San Francisco, CA

    • 2016, Social Space and Public Discourse in Iran, Stanford University, Visiting Artist

    • 2016, Social Practice, Suzanne Cockrill, California College of the Arts, Visiting Artist

    • 2016, Narrative Strategies, questioning among the exile and migration, California College of the Art, Lynn Marie Kirby, Visiting Artist

    • 2014, Urban Art and Iran, Stanford University, Visiting Artist

    • 2014, SOMARTS Culture Center, Guest Artist, Workshop

    • 2014, SOMARTS Culture Center, Workshop, Flag Stories

    • 2013, Color censorship lecture, Struggles against Censorship in Iran, Siamak Pourzand Foundation, by National Endowment for Democracy,   Visiting  Lecturer.

    • 2013, Speak Your Peace, SOMARTS, Panel Discussion