A past president of the Caribbean Studies Association, she organized their 37th Annual Conference, “Unpacking Caribbean Citizenship(s): Rights, Participation and Belonging.” In addition to her extensive research and activism on issues concerning Haiti and the Haitian communities of North America, she focuses on labor migration and transnational patterns of migrants identities; the dynamic of race, culture, and history; and gender and empowerment. She has served on the editorial board of various scholarly journals and is a founding member of Haitian Dialogue, a conflict resolution project of the American Friends Service Committee of New York.