Wentz is the Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate College and a professor in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University. She is also the Interim Director for the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning (2020-2021). She leads ASU ADVANCE, to become a higher education leader in inclusion and diversity at all levels of the university, from undergraduates to academic leadership. She is the Director and PI of the Knowledge Exchange for Resilience, an ASU initiative to support Maricopa County, Arizona by sharing knowledge, catalyzing discovery, and exchanging responses to challenges together, in order to build community resilience. Her research focuses on the design, implementation and evaluation of geographic technologies with particular emphasis on how such technologies can be used to understand urban environments.
