Since 2004, She has been a member of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation-funded research project, “Building Resilient Regions.” She is also part of a team of researchers assessing the potential of the homeland security economy for community economic development at the St. Elizabeths Hospital site in Southeast Washington, DC. Her research has been funded by the Kauffman Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, National Association of Counties, and the United States Economic Development Administration. In 2014, She published a book manuscript, Dealing with Deindustrialization: Adaptive Resilience in Eight Midwestern Regions (Routledge).