Eric Castillo, Ph.D.
Associate Vice Chancellor for Arts, Culture, and Community Impact, Alamo Community Colleges District
Eric Castillo, Ph.D.
Associate Vice Chancellor for Arts, Culture, and Community Impact, Alamo Community Colleges District
Dr. Eric Castillo (he/him/él) is a second-generation Xicano from Yanaguana/San Antonio, Texas, a social justice practitioner and scholar helping to create a just, compassionate, and liberated world.
Committed to the lifelong practice of solidarity and peacemaking, he co-leads and co-creates opportunities where people can collectively flourish and work towards positive and sustainable social change. His community organizing background focuses on immigration, education equity, and racial justice and he facilitates community healing circles, truth, racial healing, and transformation programs, along with various community-based projects such as the First Peoples Project, CompassionateUSA, and the Black Westside History Project.
Dr. Castillo received his Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of New Mexico and was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship and Israel-Palestine Studies Faculty Fellowship recipient. He currently holds a Racial Healing Practitioner Fellowship with the National Compadres Network, funded by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. His most recent publication, “A Comprehensive Guide to the Introduction and Implementation of Equity Standards and Guidelines Across Diverse Industries” was published in fall 2023 through the Journal of Engaged Research. Other publication includes “Justice in Action: Decolonial and Anti-Racist Work Inside/Outside the Master’s House,” appears in the book Deconstructing Constructs of Whiteness in Higher Education: Narratives of Resistance from the Academy, published in 2022. His forthcoming peer-reviewed article, “Myth and Monument in Old Town Albuquerque: Southwest Pietà and the War of Presiding Histories” will be published in 2024 in Regeneración: A Xicanacimiento Studies Journal. His co-authored book chapter titled, “The First Peoples of Yanaguana/San Antonio” will be published in 2024 in the Strengthening Campus Communities through the Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Framework book in partnership with the American Association of Colleges and Universities through Routledge Press.
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