She is also Associate Faculty at the Dame Nita Barrow Institute for Gender and Development Studies at the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies. Her research interests include the gendered politics of neoliberalism, social reproduction and women's activism; gender, coloniality and violence; and transnational migration and diaspora. For the past eight years, Alissa has edited a weekly newspaper column, In the Diaspora, in the Stabroek News, a Guyanese independent newspaper, and she is a member of Red Thread Women's Organization in Guyana.