She is also a director of the American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association. Previously, she was an associate professor and director of the Spanish Translation Certificate Program at Arizona State University. She is the author of Translation Teaching: From Research to the Classroom (McGraw-Hill). She works as an expert consultant in translation pedagogy for the University of Arizona's National Center on Interpretation Research and Policy, and as a translation scholar for the Hablamos Juntos project of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.