She has been engaged with grassroots struggles for social and economic justice in the U.S. and Latin America and brings this knowledge and commitment to her academic and movement-based research and teaching. She is especially interested in learning from political education among pro-Zapatista organizations in Chiapas, Mexico, and from processes of concientización in movement building. She is a member of the Poverty Scholars Coordinating Committee of the Poverty Initiative, a network of poor people’s organizations in the United States.