Commmitted to particpatory activist research, she has collarborated with such organizations as Planned Parenthood, battered women's shelters, sexual health on education programs, and grassroots programs and foundations supporting girls and youth development. her current research agenda explores issues of consent and coercion in adolescents' sexual experiences; the subjective and social implications of media images of hypermasculinity and the hypersexulization of young girls; and children's and adult caregivers' experiences of the commercialization of children's culutre. She is currently working on a documentary film with the Media Education Foundation based on her research. She has appeared on National Public radio, the CBC, CNN, ABC, Fox News, and other television programs, and her reasearch on adolescent girls' issues has received front-page attention in the Washington Post and several other national and internatiol news publications. She has delivered keynote addresses in forums ranging from violence prevention conferences to the National Science Foundation. Before coming to the University of Massachusetts, she worked with incarcerated sex offenders and rape survivors and taught at the University of Pennsylvania and the New School University, where she received the Distinguished University Teaching Award.
