Her research interests include project based curriculum, arts integration, publicly engaged scholarship, and community partnerships. From 2012-2014 she was the PI/Project Director for Avanzando Lectura y Matemáticas a través del Arte / Advancing Math and Reading through the Arts (ALMA), a research project partnership between the United Community Center, Latino Arts, Inc., and UWM funded through the U.S. Department of Education’s Arts in Education Model Development and Dissemination grant program. As a result of her teaching experiences and research, she believes it is important to take issue-based approaches to art instruction and she is enthusiastic about collaborating with other educators to create integrated learning experiences for students.