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Tara Yosso is the Inaugural Distinguished Scholar-In-Residence for the Institute for Emancipatory Education at the Connie L. Lurie College of Education at San José State University and Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Riverside. 

Yosso applies the frameworks of critical race theory and critical media literacy to examine educational access and opportunity. Her work seeks to understand the ways communities of color have historically utilized an array of cultural knowledge, skills, abilities and networks to navigate structures of racial discrimination in pursuit of educational equality. 

Yosso’s model of Community Cultural Wealth (CCW) challenges the idea that students of color lack the appropriate knowledge and networks necessary for academic achievement. She historically grounds what scholars call a “strengths-based” approach by naming an array of cultural knowledge, skills, abilities and networks possessed and utilized by communities of color to survive and resist racism and other forms of subordination.