She has composed many works based on American history, including Harriet Tubman: When I Crossed That Line to Freedom, Invitation to a Die-In and "The Journey of Phillis Wheatley".
The opera looks at the life of enslaved Africans living in plantations in the South, Harriet Tubman and the music of the time period.
Her work, Invitation to a Die-In (2017) was commissioned and premiered by conductor Ng Tian Hui and the Mount Holyoke Symphony Orchestra.
[13] Invitation to a Die-In was a commission in memory of Trayvon Martin and other young black men who have lost their lives to violence.
[10] The text for Invitation was written by David Cote and the performance of the work includes percussion imitating gunshots and members of the orchestra falling over as if they had been hit.
[15] Charlotte Mecklenburg also holds a reference to a victim of police violence, with the percussion section of the work referencing Keith Lamont Scott.