I am currently completing a book project focused on the promises and pitfalls of linguistic metaphors for antiracism. I have presented this work as part of the Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series at the University of Rochester, and in talks including at Princeton, Davidson College, Boston College, and the International Migration Research Network Standing Committee on Education and Social Inequality. The photo below features participants in the manuscript workshop that took place in conjunction with the Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture at the University of Rochester in October 2025. 

I am also participating in an ongoing collaboration, Community as Intellectual Space,  with Laura Ruth Johnson (Northern Illinois University), Maura Toro-Morn (Illinois State University), and Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz (University of California Berkeley). This project focuses on decolonial praxis in Chicago's Puerto Rican Cultural Center and the communities of which it is a part.  See the video below of a symposium related to this work.  

In recent years, I participated in the Demystifying Languages Project based at Fordham University. Through this initiative, linguistic anthropologists and scholars in related fields transpose their published academic work for high school audiences in collaboration with undergraduates and high school students. Nelson Flores and I transposed our article, Undoing Appropriateness: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and Language Diversity in Education (2015, Harvard Educational Review). The new version is titled Language is Not the Problem, Racism is the Problem.

Lastly, I serve as Director of Stanford's Program in Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies as part of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. See a report of our 2025-2026 activities here. The photo below is from a mural tour with Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies students in San Francisco's Mission District in November 2025.