Dr. Judy Yu is the Founding Director of REACH®, an education consulting firm based in New York City. She serves as a Commission and Council Member of CUNY Black, Race, & Ethnic Studies Initiative. Dr. Yu is a MotherScholar, activist, educator, and a faculty member at Queens College, School of Education. As a former elementary school teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District, Dr. Yu has developed a critical multicultural and Asian American studies program for students that empowers young people to utilize their lived experiences, narratives, and personal artifacts as bodies of scholarship in re-telling our American history. Her work has been published in International Journal of Qualitative Studies (2022), The Peabody Journal of Education (2022); Teachers College Press (2020), Center for Asian American Media (2017), and Rowman and Littlefield (2013).

Dr. Yu is a recipient of several honors and awards including the Education Research Project Service Award, American Educational Research Association (AERA); Outstanding Dissertation Award, Research on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans at AERA; Elihu Rose Fellowship, Columbia University; Spencer Foundation Research Grant; and the President’s Diversity and Community Initiatives Grant, Teachers College, Columbia University.