She serves as co-director of CONHI’s Veterans Affairs Nursing Academic Partnership and served as faculty director of CONHI’s first study abroad program to Peru. Aliria has volunteered as a nurse in primary care clinics in Oaxaca, Mexico, Cusco, Peru, the Solomon Islands, and locally in a free mobile health clinic in the Phoenix valley. Her clinical nursing experience includes work in oncology, medical-surgical, telemetry, medical ICU, and trauma ICU.