Dr. Dina Castro

Biography

Dina C. Castro is the director of the Institute for Early Childhood Well-Being and the Bahamdan Professor of Early Childhood Well-Being at Boston University's Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her scholarship focuses on equity and quality in early care education for bilingual children and immigrant, migrant, and indigenous communities. Castro recognizes and explores the intersection of language, culture, race, ethnicity, and disability, advocating for an interdisciplinary approach in the fields of early childhood development, education, bilingualism, and special education. Prior to her position at BU, she held the Velma E. Schmidt Endowed Chair in Early Childhood Education at the University of North Texas, and has been a faculty member at other notable institutions such as Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University and the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Castro has directed federally funded national research initiatives aimed at improving early care education practices for bilingual children, with support from prominent research organizations. Her educational background includes a PhD in Early Childhood & Special Education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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