Her teaching and scholarly interests focus on the translanguaging practices of emerging bilingual children, biliteracy development both in and outside of schools, and the practice of critical language pedagogies. Her research has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Americas Research Network, and the Fulbright Organization, and her work as been published in Radical Teacher, Critical Education, Discourse: Cultural Studies in the Politics of Education, and The Journal of Educational Policy. She works with Mighty Writers: El Futuro, a Spanish/English, bilingual community writing center that fosters bilingualism and biliteracy for Latino/a youth in Philadelphia.