[3] In 2020 Xochitl founded the Health Education for Latinos Program (HELP), a fund that provides annual scholarships to Latino low-income students to help them in their education for future health careers, both at the undergraduate and the graduate level.

[4] Under her direction, the HIA has coordinated Binational Health Week for 23 consecutive years, one of the largest mobilization efforts in the Americas to improve the well-being of Latino immigrants.

She created the Annual Binational Policy Forum on Migration and Global Health, a collaboration among 30 universities and over 200 agencies.

She is also the founder of the Athena Network, a world organization for the mental health of mobile populations.

She has presented the results of her academic and advocacy work in over 500 national and international conferences, symposiums, policy briefings, and other events.