"Take Our Daughters Where . . . ?" Comment in Special Labor Issue: Women and Work. Dollars and Sense Sept/Oct, No. 231, p. 10, (2000).

"Review of Latino Studies Program," DePaul University. Latin American and Latino Studies Program. May 1999.

"External Review Committee, Women's Studies Ph.D. Program at Clark University," May 1996. (with Abigail Steward and Beverly Guy-Shettall).

"Ethnographic Evaluation of Behavioral Causes of Census Undercounts of Undocumented Immigrant and Salvadorans in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA." Funded by the United States Census Bureau, Center for Survey Methods. Research is Part of the 1990 Ethnographic Evaluation of the Behavioral Causes of Undercount in the Decennial Census.

"Review of the American Peoples of Color Program," Macalester College, Provost Office. December, 1992.

"External Review Committee, Women's Studies, University of Michigan," February, 1990. (with Catharine R. Stimpson and Richard Ohmann).

"Women Domestic Workers, the Service Economy, and Labor," Comparative Labor History Series, Working Paper (1995) Center for Labor Studies, University of Washington, Seattle.

Dec. 1998 "Class Struggle and Resistance Against the Transformation of Land Ownership and Usage in Northern New Mexico: The Case of Las Gorras Blancas," 1848/1898@1998 Transhistoric Tresholds Conference, Arizona State University. Competitively Selected.

Dec. 1998 "Wearing the Emperor's Clothes: Stories of Domestic Service and Class-Based, Gendered, and Bicultural Bodies," American Anthropology Association, Philadelphia. Competitively Selected.

Nov. 1998 "Mentoring and the Job Market," Brown Bag Seminar. Graduate School, ASU. Invited Presentation.

Nov. 1998 ProSeminar Discussion on "'The Department is Very Male, Very White, Very Old, and Very Conservative': The Functioning of the Hidden Curriculum in Graduate Departments." (With Eric Margolis). Educational Leadership and Policy Department, ASU. Invited Presentation.

Oct. 1998 "Constructing the Latino Criminal: The Case of Julio Valerio," Making History, Constructing 'Race' Situation 'Race' in the Time, Space, and Theory. University of Victoria Conference, Victoria, Canada. Competitively Selected.

Sept. 1998 "Like One of the Family or Just the Mexican Maid's Daughter: A Modern Version on 'Imitation of Life,'" Latin American Studies Conference, Chicago, IL. Competitively Selected.

Sept. 1998 "Stories of Domestic Service and Class-Based, Gendered, and Bicultural Bodies," Gendering the Millennium, University of Dundee, Scotland, UK Competitively Selected.

July 1998 "Latinas/Latinos and New Changes in U.S. Race Relations," Keynote Address. Women in Leadership Lucent Technologies Professional Development Conference, Washington, D.C.

July 1998 "Empowerment Through Collective Action: Lessons of Sisterhood in the Workplace," Workshop Facilitator. Women in Leadership Lucent Technologies Professional Development Conference, Washington, D.C. Invited Presentation.

June 1998 "Challenges and Directions in Feminist Studies," Keynote Speaker at "Making Connections IV," National Association for Women in Catholic Higher Education, Washington, D.C.

June 1998 "Mentoring and the Job Market," 1998 Mellon Minority Summer Conference at Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Invited Presentation as one of the "Designated Role Models."

May 1998 Conversation on "The Functioning of the Hidden Curriculum in Graduate Departments." Editorial Board of the Harvard Educational Review, Harvard University Graduate School of Education. Invited Presentation.

May 1998 "Critical Race Theory and the Case of Latina Domestic Workers," LatCritIII Conference, Miami Beach, FL. Competitively Selected.

Feb. 1998 "Theorizing Race, Class and Gender: Research on the Maid's Children," Signs, Journal of Women in Culture and Society Graduate Seminar, University of Washington, Seattle. Invited Lecturer.

Nov. 1997 "Equal Protection and Service: The Case of Julio Valerio," Critical Race Theory Decennial Conference, Yale Law School, Yale University, New Haven. Competitively Selected.

Oct. 1997 "Exploring Bicultural Constructions of Gendered Bodies From the Standpoint of a Mexican Maid's Daughter in the U.S.," Graduate Student Conference on Body and Borders, University of Michigan. Invited Plenary Speaker.

Oct. 1997 "Life as the Maid Daughter," University of Michigan - Deerborn, Invited Speaker.

Feb. 1997 "'The Department is Very Male, Very White, Very Old, and Very Conservative': The Functioning of the Hidden Curriculum in Graduate Departments," with Eric Margolis, Sociology of Education Association, Monterrey, CA Competitively Selected.

Feb. 1997 "The New Conservative Narrative of the Latina/o Experience: 'Out of the Barrio' or 'Border Crossings'?" The National Association for Hispanic and Latino Studies, Houston, TX Competitively Selected.

April 1997 "Sociology's Role in Interdisciplinary Scholarship" Panel Discussant on Ethnic Studies. Pacific Sociological Association 1997 Annual Conference, San Diego, CA. Invited Presentation.

Feb. 1997 "Learning to Think and Teach about Race and Gender Despite Graduate School: Obstacles Women of Color Graduate Students Face in Sociology," Women of Color/ Sisters Symposium, Arizona State University, Invited Presentation.

March 1997 "Class-Based, Gendered and Racialized Institution of Higher Education: Everyday Life of Academia From the View of Chicana Faculty," Regional NACCS Conference, Arizona State University.

March 1997 "The Case of Julio Valerio," (with Students United for Justice) Regional NACCS Conference, Arizona State University.

May 1997 "The Case of Julio Valerio," (with Students United for Justice) MEChA Conference, Phoenix College, Invited Presentation.

May 1997 "Servicing American Families: A Narrative of the Maid's Daughter," Labor Studies Symposium on the Underground Economy, Pitzer College. Invited Speaker.

Nov. 1996 "Chicana/o Barrios & Segregation," The New Segregation, The School of Justice Studies, Arizona State University Invited Presentation.

Aug. 1996 "Alien and Minority Again? Cuentos Told by Chicana Faculty," Society for the Study of Social Problems Meetings, New York, NY Competitively Selected Presentation.

Aug. 1995 "Issues of Diversity in the Academic Workplace: The Case of Ph.D. Programs in Sociology," American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C. Invited Presentation.

June 1995 "Women Domestic Workers, the Service Economy, and Labor," Summer Program in Comparative Labor History at the University of Washington, Seattle and Harry Briggs Chair in Labor Studies. Invited Public Lecture.

May 1995 "Latina Household Workers in a Global Economy," 1995 Spring Lecture Series on Labor, Gender, Ethnicity, and Community, University of Washington Tacoma. Invited Speaker.

Sept. 1994 "Women of Color Graduate Students and Apprenticeship into the Profession," Work, Gender, and Inequality Workshop, Department of Sociology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KT Invited Participant.

Oct. 1994 "Latinos and the Racial Paradigm," Colloquium Series on Gender, Race, and Ethnicity, Millersville University, PA Invited Presenter.

Nov. 1994 "Apprenticeship Experiences of Women of Color in the Academic Workplace," Women in the Global Economy Lecture Series, Colgate University. Invited Presenter.

Nov. 1994 "Chicanos Confront Race, Class, Gender and Immigration," Public Lecture. Multiculturalism Conference, Bryn Mawr College. Invited Presenter and Visiting Scholar.

June 1994 "Life Story of the Mexican Maid's Daughter," Sixth European Conference on Latino Cultures in the United States in Bordeaux, France. Competitively Selected.

May 1994 "Maid in the U.S.A." Reed College, Invited Presentation.

May 1994 "Latinos and the Imperfect Fit in the White/Black Race Paradigm," Portland Community College Invited Speaker.

April 1994 "Maid in the U.S.A.: Chicana Household Workers and the Struggle for Domestic Harmony," University of Puget Sound. Invited Speaker.

April 1994 "Transcending and Reproducing Race, Class and Gender Hierarchies in the Everyday Interactions Between Chicana Private Household Workers and Employers," Keynote Address at Thirteenth Annual Lewis & Clark College Gender Studies Symposium.

March 1994 "Chicano Identity: Race, Class, Gender," Chicanos and Multiculturalism in the Humanities: Challenges and Opportunities Conference, Willamette University. Invited Speaker.

Jan. 1994 "Learning to Think and Teach about Race and Gender Despite Graduate School: Obstacles Women of Color Graduate Students Face in Sociology," University of Minnesota Center for Advanced Feminist Studies Rockefeller Conference on Thinking, Writing, Teaching, and Creating Social Justice. Invited Speaker.

Nov. 1993 "The Life Story of the Daughter of a Maid," Center for Advanced Feminist Studies Theorizing Female Diversity Seminar, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. Invited Speaker.

Oct. 1993 "Beyond the Sociology 'Of' Race: Toward Integrating Race 'In' the Discipline," Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. Invited Speaker.

May 1993 "Cuentos From a Maid's Daughter: Stories of Socialization and Cultural Resistance," Women's Studies Colloquium, Macalester College, Invited Speaker.

March 1993 "Maid in the U.S.A.," Women's History Month, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minneapolis. Invited Speaker.

Feb. 1993 "The Maid's Daughter," Women at Noon Program, Office of Women's Programs and Studies, Colorado State University. Invited Speaker.

Oct. 1992 "Maid in the U.S.A.," Latino Research Center, De Paul University, Chicago, IL. Invited Speaker.

Oct. 1992 "Negotiating Life as the Maid's Daughter: An Exploration of the Everyday Boundaries of Race, Class, and Gender," Feminist Scholarship: Thinking Through The Disciplines Lecture Series, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. Invited Speaker.

Oct. 1992 "Chicanas and the Changing Work Experience in Domestic Service," Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. Invited Speaker.

Nov. 1992 "Not Just Like One of the Family: Chicana Domestic Establishing Professional Relationships With Employers," Center for Research on Women, Memphis State University, Memphis, TN. Invited Speaker.

Nov. 1992 "Social Realities of Women in the Labor Force Since World War II in the United States," Crossing Currents: Contemporary Women's Movements in Germany and the United States. Women Studies and the Goethe Institute, University of Michigan, Invited Speaker.

March 1992 Workshop on Ethnic Studies, Lane Community College, Eugene, OR. Invited Presenter and Facilitator.

June 1992 Workshop on Integrating the Curriculum, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR. Invited Presenter and Facilitator.

Aug. 1991 "Women Color Graduate Students in Sociology," American Sociological Association Meetings, Cincinnati, OH Invited Panelist.

July 1991 Curriculum Workshop on Chicanas, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. Invited Presenter.

April 1991 "'I'm Not Your Maid. I am the Housekeeper.' The Restructuring of Housework and Work Relationships in Domestic Service," Experiences of Gender: Color, Class and Country Conference, American University, Washington, D.C. Invited Presentation.

April 1989 "The Use of Women's Culture in AIDS Outreach," Western Social Science Association, Albuquerque, NM (1989) Competitively Selected.

Feb. 1988 "Feminist Ideology and La Chicana: Assumptions and Conclusions," Fifth Annual Conference on Ethnic Studies: Crossroads for the 21st Century, "Women of Color: Issues of Ethnicity, Class and Gender," Bowling Green State University, OH (1988) Invited Panelist.

Aug. 1988 "Chicanas Modernize Domestic Service," American Studies Association Conference, Miami, FL Invited Panelist.

Aug. 1988 "Renegotiating Race, Class and Gender Hierarchies in the Everyday Interactions Between Chicana Private Household Workers and Employers," Society for the Study of Social Problems, Atlanta, GA Competitively Selected.

Aug. 1987 "Sisterhood and Domestic Service: Race, Class and Gender in the Mistress-Maid Relationship," Society for the Study of Social Problems, Chicago, IL. Competitively Selected.

June 1987 "Chicana Domestics in Denver, Colorado," National Women's Studies Association, Atlanta, GA Competitively Selected.

June 1987 "Chicana and Mexicana Experience in the Colonial Labor System as Domestic Workers," Seventh Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Wellesley, MA Competitively Selected.

Feb. 1987 Symposium on "Increasing Racial Tensions on College Campuses," Harvard Foundation, Harvard University. Invited Panelist.

Nov. 1986 "Chicanos in Higher Education," Keynote Address at the Annual Chicano Ivy League Conference, Princeton University

Oct. 1986 "Women, Work and Family," Public Policy Research on Contemporary Hispanic Issues Research and Policy Forum. Inter-University Program for Latino Research and the Social Research Council, Los Angeles, CA Invited Panelist.

Sept. 1986 Ivy League Chicano Recruitment Conference. Opening Comments. Yale University.

March 1983 "A Forum on the Problems Faced by Hispanics in Higher Education," Indiana University Northwest, Gary, IN. Invited Panelist.

Aug. 1979 "Research and Minority Women: Where is it?" Sociologists for Women in Society Annual Conference, Boston, MA. Invited Panelist.