She has served as special assistant to the dean of the College of Arts and Science 2012–2014 and program chair of the Writing Across Communities (WAC) initiative at UNM 2004–2014. Her work is featured in the journals JAC, Written Communication, Journal of Reflections, and the Journal of Community Literacy, and her current book project is Vicente Ximenes and LBJ’s “Great Society”: Twentieth-Century Mexican American Civil Rights Rhetoric (Southern Illinois University Press, 2017).