She earned an A.B. in government from Smith College, an M.Div. from Yale Divinity School, and a Ph.D. in theological ethics from Boston College. Flores’ research emphasizes the contributions of Catholic and U.S. Latinx theologies to notions of justice, emotion, and aesthetics as they relate to the common good within plural socio-political contexts. In practical ethics, her work addresses issues of migration, labor, consumption, race and ethnicity, family, and politics. In support of her first book, "Guadalupe in the Public Square: Aesthetic Solidarity and the Common Good," she was awarded grants from the Mellon Global South Humanities Fellowship and the Yale Center for Faith and Culture. She is a contributing author to America: The Jesuit Review of Faith & Culture.