Her current research focuses on whether and how people who disagree can learn from each other through deliberative dialogue, as well as the ethical implications of such learning and the prior civic education that might prepare people to learn from their opponents. She previously examined deliberation between police and communities of color and is now studying deliberation between politically opposed university students. Her prior research also focused on efforts by community activists to change police officers’ beliefs and behavior through activism and education, which is the subject of her first book, Just Violence: Torture and Human Rights in the Eyes of the Police (Stanford University Press, 2017).