ERIN CASTRO

Dr. Castro is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy and Associate Dean for Community Engagement and Access in the Office of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Utah. Her research seeks to improve policy and practice toward greater equity in higher education for people impacted by incarceration. In 2016, she co-founded the University of Utah Prison Education Project and in 2017 launched the Research Collaborative on Higher Education in Prison. She is a founding editor for the Journal of Higher Education in Prison.

Her current project is a planning grant to stand up a national center dedicated to prison education research and leadership.