Rate My Professor Andrene Castro

Andrene J. Castro is an associate professor of Educational Leadership at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Education, where she also serves as the departmental program coordinator for the Ph.D. in Education, Leadership, Policy, and Justice. She holds a Ph.D. in Educational Policy and Planning with a concentration in Race and Gender Studies from the University of Texas at Austin (2019), an M.S. in Urban Education and African Diaspora Studies from Florida International University (2010), and a B.S. in English Education from the University of South Florida (2005). Castro joined VCU in 2019 as a visiting assistant professor, advancing to assistant professor in 2020, and has held roles such as faculty research fellow at the Minority Educator Recruitment, Retention, and Equity Center (2021–2023) and research affiliate at New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development (2021–present). Prior to academia, she served as a policy intern at the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans (2016), instructor at Miami Dade College (2012–2014), and high school English teacher and department chairperson at Miami Southridge Senior High School (2005–2013).