[2] Her doctoral research used historical and ethnographic methodologies to study San Francisco taxi workers.

[3] After earning her PhD, Dubal joined the Clayman Institute for Gender Research as a postdoctoral fellow.

She has investigated the taxi economy in San Francisco pre- and post-Uber, and how the everyday experiences of drivers changed with commodification of medallions, the leasing system, and the de-regulation following the legalization of TNCs.

[12][13] Dubal has studied and written about the rise of the technology labor movement through organized protests,[14][15] such as the 2018 Google walkouts[16] and 2019 Uber strike.

[20] Dubal has advocated for cities to restrict facial recognition technologies in an effort to minimize citizen surveillance and inappropriate data collection.