Three specific strands of inquiry guide her current research agenda: 1) oral language and reading achievement among young Spanish-English emergent bilingual children; 2) dual language immersion education programs as venues for biliteracy development and community empowerment; and 3) the experiences of Latin@ undergraduate students at predominantly White state universities. She has presented at national and international conferences, and her work has been published in Anthropology and Education Quarterly, Linguistics and Education, Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, Child Development and elsewhere.