Dr. Reyes is currently the Director of the Women Studies Program, an active member of the U.S. West, and Gender and Women’s Comparative Histories, sections in the History department, is an affiliate in the Latin American Studies Program and the American Studies department at UNM, and serves on the Advisory Board of the Chicana and Chicano Studies Program, and the Executive Board of the Feminist Research Institute at UNM.  

She has been involved with the WHA since her graduate student years, serving on the 2003, 07, 08 program committees, and as a member (3 years), and chair, of the Sarah Jackson dissertation award, and Bolton-Cutter award (2008) committees. She is also a co-founder (2003), and organizer, of the Borderlands-Fronterizos Group, for which she has organized yearly panels and workshops on Mexican North and U.S. Southwest borderlands scholarship, and continues efforts to further develop scholarly transnational conversations on Chicana/o-Borderlands-Fronterizo research. For this effort, she heads the Transnational Working Group of the Southwest Hispanic Research Institute in the development of a broad network of universities and research institutions that are focused on borderlands/fronterizo research collaboration, the organizing of transnational conferences and events, and the mentoring and exchange of graduate students specializing in the field.