Dr. Luz Yadira Herrera

Luz Yadira Herrera, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Dual Language Learning and Teacher Education at California State University, Dominguez Hills. Her teaching and research focus on 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 (2020) and Libros solidarios: Teaching Language and Building Community with Latine Children’s Literature in Spanish, K–6 (2025), both written with Dr. Carla España.