Her research is informed by critical pedagogy and autoethnography as she interrogates the role of her own whiteness, power, and privilege in preparing teachers to teach in immigrant and refugee communities, and as she conducts research with participants in vulnerable and marginalized communities. Her research listens to the voices of Mexican immigrants through the perspective of transnational (auto)ethnography, integrated with critical autoethnography, which combines critical pedagogy and autoethnography. Her work has been published in both English and Spanish in the United States, Spain, and Mexico. She teaches courses on critical autoethnography and multiculturalism for the Institute of Critical Pedagogy in Chihuahua, Mexico.