From 1999 - 2009 she was a faculty member in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy at the University at Buffalo. Her research interests include how White educators conceptualize race, school district policies to promote educational equity, historical and contemporary studies of urban school reform, and culturally responsive urban school leadership in national and international contexts. She is currently engaged in an ongoing study that seeks to identify the role of parent and community activism in the development of educational equity policies and diversity curriculum in three urban school districts (New York City, Toronto, and London) over a forty-year period (1968 – 2008).