She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in elementary social studies methods. Her research focuses on how Black women teachers utilize experiential and community knowledge to reconceptualize the construct of citizenship. Her scholarship has been published in Theory and Research in Social Education, Urban Education, Journal of Social Studies Research, Gender and Education, The High School Journal, Social Studies Research and Practice, and The International Journal of Multicultural Education. She is a former middle school social studies teacher in Pflugerville, Texas.