Ileana is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Hispanic Linguistics at The Ohio State University. She is interested in sociolinguistics, phonetics and phonology and raciolinguistics. Some of her current work include the rhotic production of Heritage speakers, Bad Bunny's translanguaging practices in his discography and the language use, attitudes and linguistic identities of Latines in Columbus, Ohio. Furthermore, she has previously worked at COSI, creating language activities in Spanish that make linguistics, as a field, more approachable for the public.