She is author of three books, including Kids in the middle: How children of immigrants negotiate community interactions for their families and Understanding ethnic media: Producers, consumers, and societies. Her research addresses parent-child dynamics in immigrant, low-income, and minority families, and specifically, how families interact with U.S. institutions (including schools, healthcare facilities, and courts) and with new communication technologies. Her most recent work on technology adoption and engagement among low-income families, titled Opportunity for all?: Technology and learning in lower-income families, was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr. Katz holds a B.A. from UCLA and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California, where she was an Annenberg Fellow.