 Yaco went on to attend the University of Wisconsin–Madison in Madison, Wisconsin, and works in the field of archival records and administration.She has been the director Social Justice Projects and Research at the University of Illinois at Chicago Library; Head of Special Collections and University Archives at University of Illinois at Chicago; and special collections librarian and university archivist at Old Dominion University.Effective August 2018 she is associate director of Special Collections and University Archives at Rutgers University.