She teaches instructional techniques for English language arts and social studies, ESL pedagogy, and literacy across the curriculum. Her research focuses on preparing teachers for multicultural classrooms, education of at-risk youth, and the intersection of diversity, culture and curriculum. Her research has been published as a book, Girls Behind Bars Reclaiming Education in Transformative Spaces; as co-edited collections, Internationalizing Teacher Education for Social Justice: Theory, Research and Practice and Internationalizing Teaching and Teacher Education for Equity; and, in education and curriculum journals such as Race, Ethnicity and Education, Teachers College Record, Issues in Teacher Education and Journal of Curriculum Theorizing.