A former community health worker, she was an organizer and advocate in the anti-violence and hiv/aids action movements during the late 1980s and 1990s. As someone with lived and work experience in the area of disability, her academic work involves the use of sociological theories to explore citizenship as a determinant of disabled people's health. She is also involved in several projects exploring the use of new media in constructing new knowledges of disability and in constructing new ways for disabled people to transform their personal and collective realities.