"[6] In 2018, the Whitney Museum of American Art released a video by Rodriguez in which she discussed Ja'Tovia Gary's film An Ecstatic Experience.
[7] Rodriguez curated a show centered around ideas of displacement and how it affects the Latinx population in New York.
[2] In March 2019, Rodriguez joined a group of Latinx scholars, artists, and activists in penning and signing a letter to El Museo del Barrio demanding change [clarification needed] at the East Harlem institution.
[13] Rodriguez is a member of Decolonize This Place and spoke at the ultimately successful May 2019 protests against Warren Kanders, owner of the defense manufacturing company Safariland and then-vice chair of the Whitney Museum of American Art, seeking to remove Kanders from its board.
[17][19] She was subsequently fired by Hunter College and the School of Visual Arts and arrested on charges of menacing and harassment.