Her participatory action research with youth has focused on the unintended consequences of education policies such as high-school exit exams on school push-out, and use and over-use of the GED credential by youth and schools. She has also conducted participatory action research with youth on human rights violations, competition, maldistributed resources and opportunities, and youths’ valuations of schooling in New York City. Her writing, which has chronicled Indigenous theories, qualitative research, research ethics, and theories of change, has appeared in the Urban Review and several edited volumes, including Ethical Futures in Qualitative Research and the Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies. She is coauthor of Theory and Educational Research: Toward Critical Social Explanation (2009).