[11] She wrote No Mexicans, Women or Dogs Allowed: The Rise of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement, the first scholarly history of the origins of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC).

[13][14][15][16][17] Orozco has written about the activist Adela Sloss-Vento,[18][19] in a book that was reviewed by other journals.

[20][21][22] In 2020, Orozco published a book about the civil rights activist Alonso Perales.

[27] In 2018, she received the Eastern New Mexico University-Ruidoso National Society of Leadership and Success "Excellence in Teaching Award".

[28] In 2020, her book Agent of Change received the Liz Carpenter award from the Texas State Historical Association.