Lillian Durán

Lillian Durán is a professor in the Department of Special Education and Clinical Sciences at the University of Oregon. She holds a PhD in educational psychology from the University of Minnesota, an MA in education and Human Development from George Washington University, and a BA in elementary education from Antioch College. Her research focuses on improving instructional and assessment practices with multilingual children. She is currently involved in multiple efforts to develop Spanish language and literacy assessments for preschool through sixth-grade students. She is also the project director on several Office of Special Education Programs training grants focused on preparing master’s and doctoral students to serve traditionally marginalized students with disabilities.

Durán frequently delivers presentations on the topic of recommended practices in language and literacy with multilingual learners and she has served on multiple equity and diversity councils including for the National Association for Young Children and the Division for Early Childhood. Prior to her work in higher education, she worked for nine years as an early childhood special education teacher in both Prince George’s County, Maryland, and rural southwestern Minnesota.