Social justice lies at the root of Quijada’s academic work and she is committed to producing new knowledge and extending research in the field of school leadership, youth development and gender studies in educational contexts. Quijada’s research projects currently center on examining how leadership practices, adult-youth relationships, Indigenous epistemologies, and school-base and national policies impact access and persistence rate for Native American and Chican@ students in Pk-20 systems and through the professoriate.