 Since 2011, she has also directed the Center for California Languages and Cultures within UC Santa Barbara's Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research.Through her work at the Center for California Languages and Cultures, Bucholtz has been the director (2009-2017) and associate director (2017–present) of a community partnership program, School Kids Investigating Language in Life + Society (SKILLS), which provides linguistics research opportunities to students enrolled in Santa Barbara high schools.Bucholtz has been an editorial board member for several journals.