She serves on several state mathematics advisory boards and was a member of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) assessment task force and the professional development and services committee. She also served on NCTM's Annual Perspectives in Mathematics Education editorial panel for the 2015 book, Assessment to Enhance Learning and Teaching. Dr. Rigelman is an active member of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators (AMTE), serving on the teaching resources task force and several committees including, professional development, membership, and emerging issues. She just completed her term on AMTE's board of directors as secretary and on the writing team for the Standards for Preparing Teachers of Mathematics. She was recently appointed as Associate Vice President of Membership for AMTE. With her colleague Dr. Maggie McGatha and more recently Dr. Susan Swars Auslander, Dr. Rigelman has co-led the various AMTE Elementary Mathematics Specialists' (EMS) initiatives. These include the development of the standards for preparing and supporting EMSs; the writing of a joint position statement on the role andimpact of EMSs in teaching and learning mathematics; and the co-editors a book in AMTE’s professional book series, Elementary Mathematics Specialists: Developing, Refining, and Examining Programs that Support Mathematics Teaching and Learning. 

Dr. Rigelman has been involved in a​​ number of National Science Foundation and Oregon Department of Education funded grants. She was faculty and district site support for the Oregon Mathematics Leadership Institute Project focused on developing K-12 teacher leaders across 10 Oregon school districts. She was the principal investigator on the Connect2MATH-Connect2SCIENCE math science partnership grant focused on engaging teachers and students in inquiry-based math and science instruction and assessment practices, as well as the integration and collegial examination of those subject areas. ​She served as co-principal investigator for the EaMML Math Science Partnership focused on developing mathematics instructional leaders at the elementary and secondary level and principal investigator of the DEMIL Noyce Master Teacher Fellowship grant which focused on developing elementary teacher leaders. ​She currently leads the professional learning and research associated with the Developing Leaders, Transforming Practice project, focused on 1) developing and researching elementary mathematics specialists serving in a variety of roles, alongside 2) examining the efficacy of their work with students and/or teachers. Her current research interests lie in mathematics teacher preparation and professional development and the influence of high-quality instructional materials on student ​mathematical discourse, reasoning, and problem solving. She is also