She is the program coordinator for Middle Level Education, and she chairs the College of Education and Social Services Committee on Diversity Initiatives. Her teaching and writing focuses on issues of reading for young adolescents, identity, diversity and multicultural education. Her current research interests involve work with English language learners and preservice educators on the topic of digital technology, and the use of digital story to support reflection and writing. She has published in literacy journals, as well as in the Journal of Educational Foundations, and has contributed to a volume in the Handbook of Research in Middle Level Education.