She is currently an Equity Advisor for the School of Humanities, focusing on equal opportunity and equity practices in hiring, mentoring, and retention of faculty. She is the author of a book, Mobilizing an Asian American Community and the co-editor of three books: Contemporary Asian American Communities: Intersection and Divergences; Asian American Women: The “Frontiers” Reader; and Labor Versus Empire: Race, Gender, and Migration. She also edited a special issue on “Vietnamese Americans: Diaspora and Dimensions” for Amerasia Journal and co-edited a special issue on “Mapping Comparative Studies of Racialization in the U.S.” for Ethnicities Journal and a special issue on "Asian American Women" for Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. On campus, she is a Board Member of the Southeast Asian Archive, which collects and documents the experiences of Cambodian, Lao, and Vietnamese Americans and is an Advisor for the Vietnamese American Coalition, a student organization. She is a Board Member of the Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander Community Alliance, Project Motivate, a mentoring program for academically at-risk Vietnamese Americans; and the biennial Vietnamese International Film Festival. She is an Advisory Member of the Vietnamese American Arts & Letters Association and the Demographic Research Project for the Asian Pacific American Legal Center in Los Angeles.