In Rosario, she spent 19 years with the Fondo Nacional de las Artes where, with Augusto Raúl Cortázar, she specialized in folklore. She was co-director of Revista Argentina de Política cultural (Argentina Journal of Cultural Policy). Passafari taught in Argentina, the US, and Europe on folklore and education, cultural entertainment, as well as cultural and traditional heritage policy actions to revive the cultural richness of traditional communities.