Her research interests promote more ethical and humane treatment of immigrants in the media. She has published on the representation of ideology in Spanish- and English-language media in the U.S., along with the ways in which the media perpetuate or challenge the negative representations of Latin@ immigrants. Her work also has examined the ways in which the U.S. Spanish and English-language media represent unaccompanied Latin@ child immigrants, as well as how U.S. Spanish-language media represent sexual assault. Strom has served as a volunteer medical and legal interpreter, ESL teacher, and community organizer to provide quality resources in Spanish to Latin@ immigrants.