Petersburg, where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in rhetoric, writing, sex work, and gender, sexuality, and feminist theory. Her research interests include the rhetoric of marginalized communities, in particular that of sex work/trafficking; public policy; gender; violence against girls and women; ethnography and participatory research methods; and civic engagement. Her book, Street Sex Workers’ Discourse: Creating Material Change Through Agential Choice, is an analysis of street-based sex work representations, the power of everyday language, and how both influence the material conditions of individuals involved in street-based sex work.