[2] Fine is a founding faculty member of the Public Science Project, which produces theoretically informed and historically enriched research in social policy debates and organizing movements for educational equity and human rights.
Previously, Fine worked for twelve years as the Goldie Anna Chaired Professor of Human Development at the University of Pennsylvania.
[2] At the City University of New York, she works to address theoretical questions focused around social injustice in relation to both youth in schools and criminal justice.
The data and the publication of "A FABULOUS ATTITUDE: Low income LGBTGNC People Surviving and Thriving on Love, Shelter and Knowledge" led to the mayoral administration of Bill de Blasio to sign into law many legislation geared to lessen discrimination against transgender New Yorkers and people of indigenous American and black African ancestry and Spanish-speaking ethnicity.
She and colleagues have given expert testimonies in over a dozen legal victories centered around gender, race, and class equity in education.