[1] Her advocacy and academic work in ameliorating disparities in genetics through community-based participatory research[2] has been covered by various national news sources, including The New York Times, Nova, The Washington Post, NPR, The Atlantic, Forbes, and The Boston Globe.
[3] Tsosie's family had been forcibly displaced economically and geographically from their home communities, so she grew up "non-res" in West Phoenix as the only native kid in her school.
[6] Tsosie completed her PhD in Genomics and Health Disparities at Vanderbilt University in 2022[8] and then worked as a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at ASU before joining their faculty.
[7] Tsosie co-leads a study that investigates genetic determinants of pre-eclampsia, specifically in pregnant Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa women and collaborates with the tribal-research review board.
[17] Tsosie is also an organizer of and faculty for Indigidata, a week-long workshop that introduces tribal undergraduate and graduate students to data science and informatics skills.
[7] At ASU, Tsosie is leading a review of paleogenomics studies in relation to "community-engaged approaches in DNA research involving Indigenous ancestors".
[23][22][24][25] In a post to Twitter published by Mashable, Krystal Tsosie stated, "to ascribe any power to a DNA-test result dis-empowers those Native Americans who do live according to their traditions.