Dr. Yosso follows in the tradition of scholars who believe education can serve as a tool for liberation. 

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Her research addresses race as a social construction and analyzes the consequences of racism at its intersections with other forms of subordination across time and place. 

 

Dr. Yosso's scholarly publications have focused on education access and opportunity, civil rights law, and portrayals of Latina/Latino students in Hollywood films. Her work seeks to reframe the debate about educational inequality, centering the knowledges and voices of Communities of Color. 

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Her Community Cultural Wealth framework has been cited 8,000 times by scholars and used widely nationally and internationally across disciplines, including but not limited to: K-12 education, higher education, human resource development, leadership development, counseling, social work, public health, marketing communications, community and advocacy organizations, business operations and more.

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Dr. Yosso's work informs praxis at many universities such as the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Stanford, University of Texas, Austin, and Brown, in state colleges with large teacher education programs such as Cal State Sacramento and Michigan State, in community colleges including those across California, Washington State, Minnesota, Hawaii, and Oklahoma. Her research is utilized internationally in universities and organizations in New Zealand, Canada, Germany, Poland, and the United Kingdom. 

 

Dr. Yosso's work provides grounding framework for a middle school in Lawrence, Massachusetts, Esperanza Academy, a first year program at Pasadena City College, a mentoring program at East Los Angeles College, an institute at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston, and in the Residential Life at Western Washington University. Similarly, Dr. Yosso has been in dialogue with a mentoring program in Norway who utilize the Community Cultural Wealth framework with refugee students from Somalia. She is also collaborating with the first all-Black University in South Africa, and their network of faculty across Caribbean and European Universities.