 She has been a visiting researcher at the Center for US-Mexico University of California, San Diego, Center for International Studies at the University of Southern California, in the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington DC, a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley and at Georgetown University.She has received research grants from the Fulbright Commission, the OAS, Princeton University and the Rockefeller Foundation.Some fragments of her texts were included by playwright Humberto Robles in the documentary "Women of sand", text addressing femicide in Ciudad Juarez, this as a result of women involved in drug and arms trafficking cartels during the administration of Felipe Calderón Hinojosa.