Tsachor teaches Theatre Movement at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She explores body-mind connections through movement to learn how function and expression interact to inform scientific research into emotions, embodied cognition, learning, health, and the arts. She collaborates on studies such as Emotion Regulation Through Movement, A Somatic Movement Approach to Fostering Emotional Resiliency, and How Do We Recognize Emotion From Movement to explore how perception of emotions from movement relates to empathy. Tsachor also investigates the impact movement and drama have on science learning in work with CPS students from diverse communities, supporting environmental justice through facilitating plays that respond to how science stories–such as water contaminated by lead—impact lives. Tsachor applies her movement expertise to affective computing, computer vision and intelligent interaction research.