As the CCA Coordinator of Learning Resources, she has advocated for underprepared students, international and immigrant students as well as those with disabilities for over 25 years. Her research documents the inner landscape of thought and feeling provoked by experience in the world, especially intercultural travel. Pedagogically, she is interested in language acquisition, language expression and the effects of visual imagery on memory and emotion. In the classroom, she focuses on the use of language and image to share ideas, feelings and opinions to describe, discuss and critique art, literature and current events. As a community artist, she brings disparate groups together to work on collaborative art pieces. Her work to mentor youth through the arts promotes creative relationships across racial, age or class barriers.