She is the author of Overcoming Bias: A Journalist's Guide to Culture and Context (Holcomb Hathaway, 2011). Her scholarly publications focus on journalism pedagogy, cognition in journalism, service learning, and diversity reporting. Her work has appeared in publications such as Quill, Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, Journal of Intergroup Relations, and Reflections: A Journal of Writing, Service-Learning and Community Literacy and the multi-volume text, Communication Activism. She was a staff writer for 10 years at the Chicago Tribune.