Evelyn Durán Urrea, Assistant Professor of Languages and Literatures at Lehman College, Dr. Durán Urrea research interests include bilingualism, Spanish-English translanguaging and code-switching, and Spanish as a heritage language. She has been teaching and supervising Heritage Spanish courses at the undergraduate level since 2002. Her most recent research has focused on assessment and placement of heritage and second language learners of Spanish at the college level, practices in the foreign language classroom; specifically, a pedagogical model for the learning of Spanish as a Heritage Language based on the Flipped Classroom approach and Critical Language Awareness, Open Educational Resources initiatives and effective pedagogies in designing online courses that foster social presence in the Spanish as a heritage language classroom.