HyeJin Tina Yeo

Dr. HyeJin Tina Yeo is an actively engaging collaborator, an equity-minded educator, and a practice-oriented interdisciplinary and mixed methods researcher. Her research interests lie primarily in improving and achieving racial equity at both the local and global levels.

Grounded from the Critical Race Theory and social theories, she has theorized about addressing international students conceptualize themselves and the social standing of their race with regard to extant social perceptions of existing racial stereotypes in the United States. Her dissertation, an Explanatory Sequential Mixed Methods Study of Engaging Racism in the U.S.: Demystifying Racialization of Domestic and International Students of Color, found that international students of color are racialized based on geographically determined stereotypes that are grounded in the legacy of slavery, normative whiteness practices, and Western cultural and linguistic superiority.

As a postdoctoral scholar in Momentum at UCLA, she is leading NSF-funded longitudinal research, the Center for Inclusive Computing (CIC) project. Her responsibilities include, but are not limited to, developing survey instruments, managing large-scale data, disseminating findings, and mentoring undergraduate and graduate students.