TARA J. YOSSO

is an associate professor in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Yosso’s teaching and research apply a framework of critical race theory to examination educational access and equity, emphasizing the community cultural wealth Students of Color bring to school.  The American Educational Studies Association selected Yosso’s book Critical Race Counterstories Along the Chicana/Chicano Educational Pipeline, (Routledge) for the 2008 Critics’ Choice Book Award. Her research is also published in journals such as Race Ethnicity and Education, Qualitative Inquiry, and the Harvard Educational Review.  Dr. Yosso’s current research on critical race media literacy analyzes racial and gender microaggressions evidenced in film portrayals of Latinas/os in schools.