Trained as a cultural anthropologist, Ochoa works at the conjuncture of the ethnography of media, modernity in Latin America and queer/transgender studies. Her first book is a queer diasporic ethnography of femininity, spectacle and nation in Venezuela. Queen for a Day:Transformistas, Misses and Mass Media in Venezuela, will be published by Duke University Press. She supervises El/La Para Translatinas, a justice, human rights and HIV prevention program for transgender Latinas in San Francisco’s Mission District. Her second project is on translatina and transformista citizenship.