She also serves on the advisory group for the Gloria Steinem & Wilma Mankiller School for Organizers at Smith College. Her publications include Cien años de feminismos dominicanos, 1865-1965 (Santo Domingo: Archivo General de la Nación, 2016); Black behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops (Duke, 2007) winner of Best Book prizes from the Latino Studies Section of the Latin American American Studies Association and the New England Council of Latin American Studies; and Miradas desencadenantes: Los estudios de género en la República Dominicana al umbral del Siglo XXI (Santo Domingo: Flacso & INTEC, 2005). She is currently the founding Vice President of the Latina/o Studies Association.