Her research focuses on the policies and the practice higher education administrators utilize to disenfranchised students gain access to and persist through college. Empirically, she seeks to improve the practice of higher education administrators, re-conceptualize theoretical frameworks to explain how administrators can better support disenfranchised students and give voice to underserved and marginalized populations. She actively participates and presents at national conferences and her work can be found in The Review of Higher Education, Fundamentals of College Admissions Counseling, Journal of Progressive Policy and Practice, and the Community College Journal of Research and Practice.