At the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, she was the founding editor of Centro Journal and a researcher on the Culture and Oral History Task Forces. In 2009, she received Hunter’s Cecile B. Insdorf Award for Excellence in Teaching for Part-Time Faculty. Blanca has been a PSC delegate, secretary of the Hunter chapter and liaison for part-timers. She served one term on the PSC Executive Council and was on the last bargaining team. She is a lifelong activist in movements for social justice, women’s equality and Puerto Rican self-determination.