Cultural Capital (Episode 43)

This week on the podcast Shaunna and Lisa discuss Tara Yosso’s Cultural Wealth Model, and explain how we can apply the theory to endurance sport. The six pillars of Yosso’s model serve as a foundation for businesses, triathlon clubs, and other endurance sport organizations to set themselves up to integrate DEI work as a central part of the work that they do, instead of an add-on or after thought.

Yosso’s six forms of capital are: Social Capital, Aspirational Capital, Familial Capital, Linguistic Capital, Navigational Capital, and Resistance Capital. Shuanna and Lisa break down each of these forms, and explain how we can use them as a framework through which we can build endurance sport communities that center people’s unique skills, knowledge, and experiences as value instead of a deficiency. They remind us that we are better as a community if we acknowledge and value all of these perspectives.

You can read more about Tara Yosso’s Cultural Wealth Model at: https://studentaffairs.ucmerced.edu/sites/studentaffairs.ucmerced.edu/files/documents/yosso_summary_.pdf

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