Dr. Tara J. Yosso brings together rigorous scholarship and real-world praxis through her multifaceted work as a scholar, researcher, professor, administrator, practitioner, and artist, engaging deeply with popular culture and community contexts.

Dr. Yosso is widely recognized for her Community Cultural Wealth framework, which has been cited over 15,000 times and adopted across diverse disciplines, including education, human resource development, leadership, counseling and social work, public health, marketing communications, and community organizations.

 

Her scholarship informs practice at institutions such as the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Stanford University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Brown University; at state universities with prominent teacher education programs, including California State University, Sacramento, and Michigan State University; and at numerous community colleges across California, Washington, Minnesota, Hawaii, and Oklahoma. Internationally, her work is employed by 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.