Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Fullerton, she specializes in feminist philosophy, philosophy of race, and phenomenology. Her research has focused on phenomenology and epistemology, particularly concerning the embodiment of women of color. She is the author of A Phenomenology for Women of Color: Merleau-Ponty and Identity-in-Difference (2024) and the editor of Living Alterities: Phenomenology, Embodiment, and Race (2014) and Race as Phenomena: Between Phenomenology and Philosophy of Race (2019).