Her research interests include: biliteracy and practitioner research, in particular action research in PreK–12 public schools. In the Bilingual Education Program at TAMU, she teaches graduate- and undergraduate- (pre-service bilingual education teachers) level courses. She has published two didactic tools: a primer of basic information about action research and how this strategy is useful for health promotion practitioners and a methodological framework for using an autoethnographic approach to research in the health professions. These tools were published in Health Promotion Practice and Action Research journals.