She earned her doctorate in social and cultural studies in education from the University of California Berkeley. Amongst her current projects, Virginia is the lead investigator on the Hegemony Project at UW-Stout. The project promotes research, collaboration, and dialogue into the ways hegemony, including whiteness, reproduces and exacerbates inequities in and through education. It aims to contribute counter-hegemonic solutions supporting a more socio-economically just and caring world. Her latest forthcoming book with Peter Lang is titled: Constructing critical consciousness: Narratives that unmask hegemony, and ideas for creating greater equity in education. Virginia is also the director of the Educultural Foundation—facilitating critical consciousness about social and cultural issues through music, the visual and performing arts, narrative, and dialogue.