Dr. Castellanos has been invited to various institutions across the country (e.g., New Jersey, Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan) to discuss racial ethnic minoritized student issues in higher education. She has presented close to 200 presentations at national conferences and has delivered multiple keynote and workshops as an invited scholar at numerous state conferences and university events. The workshops and keynotes encompass discussion around BIPOC college students’ experiences, BIPOC students’ recruitment and retention, mentoring, faculty training, and cultural competence and humility. In addition, she has a series of Latinx specific workshops that focus on Latinx issues in higher education – all examining the college experience from a psychological, social, and cultural perspective.
A few presentations include:
- Mentoring BIPOC Students: Culturally Responsive Practices
- BIPOC Students in Higher Education: Practices to Facilitate Persistence and Success
- Latinx Scholar Identity Development: Inclusive Pedagogical Practices
- Latinx Graduate Students’ Narratives on Creating Academic Families
- Latinx Administrators
- Abuelas: Informing and Shaping Latina College Students’ Educational Success
- The Influence of Mother-Daughter Relationships on Latina Undergraduates’ Persistence
- Korean American Undergraduates’ Well-being: Exploring Asian American Values Within a Psychosociocultural Framework
- Resilience among Latinx Immigrants: Psychotherapy, research, student development, and advocacy – Understanding Cuban Americans’ Resilience Patterns; Practice and Research Implications