Rosina Wright-Castro

Dr. Rosina Wright-Castro has worked in the field of Education for the last 17 years. A graduate of UC Santa Barbara, she holds a B.A. in Sociology and Spanish as well as an M.A. and PhD in Education with an emphasis in Cultural Perspectives and Human Development. Dr. Wright-Castro began her career at UC Santa Barbara. She served as a counselor in the Educational Opportunity Program where she provided academic counseling services to underrepresented students to support their successful college completion. Later she joined the Center for Chicano Studies to develop a university outreach initiative intended to support the academic preparation and college readiness of Latino students in the Santa Barbara area.

Dr. Wright-Castro joined the California Student Opportunity and Access Program at Santa Barbara City College (SBCC) in 2008 where she was charged with developing academic programs intended to increase access to higher education for low-income and first-generation college students in secondary school. In 2011, she became Coordinator of the Transfer Achievement Program at SBCC, where she managed a program providing comprehensive transfer support services to underrepresented students in an effort to increase their transfer eligibility rates to 4-year institutions. During this time, she was also employed as an Adjunct Instructor in the Personal Development Program where she taught college success courses.

In 2014, Dr. Wright-Castro relocated to Phoenix, Arizona where she served as the Student Success Coordinator for Mesa Community College's Foundations for Student Success, a federal Title III initiative. In this capacity, she coordinated student success services and assisted the campus with the development of diversity and equity initiatives. More recently, Dr. Wright-Castro returned to California and currently serves as an Academic Counselor at a community college located in the Los Angeles area.

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