She has published in academic and popular media on customary law, women’s rights, cultural rights, governance. Her current work focuses on the pursuit of justice and human security in indigenous courts by poor women and men living in rural South Africa. She has served as a senior researcher in the Centre for Law and Society at the University of Cape Town. There, she worked on the Rural Women’s Action-Research program, which combines research, advocacy, and policy work on women, property, and governing authority under customary law. In 2013-14 she was a resident scholar at the University of New Hampshire School of Law, where she held a fellowship for the completion of a book.