Recipient of Distinguished Community Service Award:

Morris County Office of Hispanic Affairs, 2019.

Recipient of Lifetime Leadership Award

Movement.org (formerly The New York City Leadership Center), 2016.

Recipient of the NAACP’s 2008

Thurgood Marshall Award for Excellence in Religion, 2008.

Leadership Proclamation Award

State of New Jersey Executive Department—Year 2006.

Named One of New Jersey’s Top 11 People to Watch in Year 2006

Star Ledger (New Jersey’s top newspaper)—Year 2005.

Christ Church: One of America’s Most Innovative Churches of the Year Award

Church Business Magazine, 2005

Seton Hall University Educational Opportunity Program:

Recognition Award for service the Community—March 2004.

Christ Church: One of America’s Most Innovative Churches of the Year Award

Church Business Magazine, 2004

Ambassador Advertising & Radio Stations WMCA & WWD)

Community Award for spiritual service resulting from the
September 11, 2001 attack against the U.S. regarding the Twin Towers, April 2002.

Primary Panelist

To debate the issue of “Prayer in the Public School”, Live two-hour National Television Program (Talk New York) with Mr. Ernie Anastos, Talk Channel, 1994.

Honors Research Fellow

Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, NJ), 1983-1984.