At the U of A, Dr. Cornide's outreach work promotes development through arts and humanities to serve as a means of overcoming social barriers. As the Director of the Critical Service Learning and Community Outreach Program for the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, she created a critical service-learning program that involves integrating experiential opportunities for students in the department to focus on critical service learning, social entrepreneurship, leadership, and community-based projects and outreach. Amplifying the work on civic engagement in the department builds off the plan to become a potential institutional base for helping community-based development in general. Since the beginning of the program in the fall of 2014, partnerships have been established with more than 50 organizations in the fields of education, human rights, law, public health, counseling, and diplomacy.