Professor Dao has also worked as a consultant through the Center for Asian American Media for the documentary on deportation, Sentenced Home (2006), and served as an Associate Producer for the documentary on the Vietnamese American response after Hurricane Katrina, A Village Called Versailles (2009). Professor Dao’s research focuses on Southeast Asian refugee migration and community development, immigrant and refugee youth, and social movements. Specifically, she studies the cultural competency in health care for Vietnamese elderly, leadership development of Vietnamese and Vietnamese American female students, Vietnamese musical theater, and memory and the Vietnam War through popular culture and exhibits. Professor Dao current project examines the experiences of Asian American youth in the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) movement.