Her scholarship and teaching focus on the link between social inequality and the built environment, with a particular focus on issues related to race, immigration, suburbanization, community development, and urban redevelopment. She is completing a book on Asian immigration in Silicon Valley suburbia, which investigates how recent trends in high tech immigration are reshaping the region’s built form, geographies of race, and the politics of development in the region and has written numerous articles on the topic of Asian immigrant suburbanization. Other recent projects have focused on battles over equitable development, gentrification, and the suburbanization of poverty in the Washington, DC region and the geography of opportunity. Her work has appeared in numerous book chapters and journal articles.