Her research interests include urban sociology/education, inter-section of race, class, ethnicity, and gender, as well as the saliency of language, literacy, and culture. She is interested in the increasing ethnic and linguistic diversity that exist in urban centers and the notion of hybrid, mixed, and multiple identities, as well as biculturalism. These social constructs converge and intersect in ways that are complex, and poses challenges to existing racial/ethnic categories. From a personal standpoint, her children identify as both Asian/Latin@ – Latin@/Asian.