Luz Yadira Herrera, Ph.D.
Dr. Luz Yadira Herrera is an Assistant Professor of Dual Language Learning. Her teaching and research are in culturally and linguistically sustaining pedagogy, translanguaging, critical pedagogies, and bilingual education policy. She is the co-author of En Comunidad: Lessons for Centering the Voices and Experiences of Bilingual Latinx Students, The Translanguaging Collections: Affirming Bilingual and Multilingual Learners Handbook, and co-founder of the En Comunidad Collective with Dr. Carla España. Her teaching journey began with students in grades K-6 in an English as a New Language classroom in NYC public schools.