Vazquez was appointed a Committee for Skeptical Inquiry fellow in 2020,[1] and received the 2023 Friend of Darwin award from the National Center for Science Education (NCSE).

[3] In 1989, Vazquez served as an exhibit guide at the Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science in Coconut Grove, Florida.

[6] Vazquez was passionate about middle-school students learning about climate change especially as she taught in Florida where they are "seeing the dramatic impacts of a warming planet".

She intertwined lessons on climate change across the curriculum, assigning her students to not only learn about it, but to seek out and understand why some people don't believe it is caused by humans.

Along with the encouragement of Dawkins and Robyn Blumner, the encounter led to the founding of the Teacher Institute for Evolutionary Science (TIES).

Bertha contributed an article to a special climate issue of skeptical Inquirer, edited by Bill Nye.

Her piece is titled, Misconceptions about Climate Change, An Educators Guide (Skeptical Inquirer Magazine, Dec 2024) In June 2022, Bertha Vazquez translated the book, Breve Historia de 4 Mil Millones de Años: Entendiendo a Darwin, by Maria Jinich.

She wrote the forward for the book, Investigating School Psychology: Pseudoscience, Fringe Science, and Controversies, edited by Michael I. Axelrod and Stephen Hupp and published by Routledge on June 3, 2024 Vazquez, Bertha & Landorf, Hilary & Simons-Lane, L. (2016).