Dr. Fox is an active member of several professional organizations, among them the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), the American Association of Teachers of French (AATF), the American Education Research Association (AERA), and the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education (AACTE) where she regularly presents research at their professional conferences. She is currently serving as the Program Co-Chair of the Special Interest Group on Portfolios and Reflection in Teacher Education of the American Education Research Association (AERA). She is Recent Past Chair of the SIG on Research for the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. She is a member of the ACTFL NCATE Program Review Board, and was 2004 Chair of the ACTFL/MLJ Birkmaier Award for the Outstanding Dissertation Committee and served on the Pimsler Award Committee for 2006. She serves on the Student Standards Commission of the American Association of Teachers of French. In addition, she is a member of Phi Delta Kappa, and of Phi Beta Delta International Honor Societies.

Reversing the trend of declining numbers of teachers of color entering the field of education is a national concern that must not be ignored by uninformed citizens who think the trend will simply correct itself without the concerted attention and the collaborative efforts of our society. Dr. Fox spearheaded Project Diversity for five years. Its goal was to form partnerships for improving the education of students in the public schools of Northern Virginia by establishing a system of early identification, recruitment, financial and academic support which will bring the percentage of multi-ethnic teachers trained at GMU into alignment with the enrollment of the university and the public schools.

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