Organizational Leader, Scholar, & Educator
Dr. Judy W. Yu is the Co-founder of the Black and Asian Solidarity Collective. She is currently working on a Spencer Foundation-sponsored research and conference on Building Racial Solidarity Across Black and Asian American History in K-20 Education utilizing historical narratives, educational research, art, media, and curriculum development.
Dr. Judy W. Yu
is the Founding Director of REACH®, an education consulting firm based in New York City. Dr. Yu is an organizational leader, scholar, and educator. As a former elementary school teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District and youth educator in New York City, Dr. Yu has developed a series of K-12 critical multicultural and Asian American studies programs for students and communities that empowers them to utilize their lived experiences, narratives, and personal artifacts as bodies of scholarship in re-telling our American history.
Dr. Yu
is a recipient of several honors and awards including the Principal Investigator for the Spencer Foundation Research & Conference Grant, Education Research Project Service Award at the American Educational Research Association (AERA); Outstanding Dissertation Award at the Research on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans, AERA; Elihu Rose Fellowship at Columbia University; Spencer Foundation Research Grant; and the President’s Diversity and Community Initiatives Grant at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Dr. Yu
is an active Commission Member of the Black, Race, & Ethnic Studies Initiative (BRESI) at the City University of New York (CUNY). Dr. Yu was chosen in 2021 as one of the 17 scholars to serve in the commission to provide expertise in building ethnic studies, racial, and social justice coursework and programs across 25 college campuses. A central goal of the $3M investment of the Black, Race and Ethnic Studies Initiative (BRESI), is to further develop university programs in Black, Race and Ethnic Studies CUNY-wide.
Dr. Yu
received her Doctor of Education from Teachers College, Columbia University in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching. She received her M.Ed. from UCLA, where she was a first-grade teacher in East Los Angeles, California. She designed and implemented an Asian American studies curriculum and created an Asian American History museum with elementary school students. Dr. Yu's educational activism began during her undergraduate years at Boston College.