Her teaching and research focus on literacy, culture, race, equity, and the educational experiences of students of color in urban contexts. Raven creates and facilitates debate education programs in an effort to promote and expand the educative and creative engagement that debate offers. She is the editor of God is Not an American: Poetry, Politics and Love (2009), authored by internationally renowned poet Jessica Care Moore, and has forthcoming works in books and journals from Teachers College Press and the Southern Education Foundation.