Dr. Rios-Aguilar’s research is multidisciplinary and uses a variety of conceptual frameworks—funds of knowledge and the forms of capital—and of statistical approaches—regression analysis, multilevel models, GIS, and social network analysis—to study the educational and occupational trajectories of under-represented minorities, including Latina/os, English learners, low-income, first-generation, and immigrant students. Most recently, Dr. Rios-Aguilar and her colleague Dr. Regina Deil-Amen, received funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to conduct the first study to assess the effectiveness of social media as a tool to increase community college students’ success. Dr. Rios-Aguilar currently serves as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Higher Education, and as a member of the Editorial Board of the American Educational Research Journal.