Dina Castro

Dina Castro is the current Velma E. Schmidt Endowed Chair in Early Childhood Education at the University of North Texas.

Dr. Castro is the director of the BU Institute of Early Childhood Well-Being and a professor at Boston University Wheelock College of Education. She holds a Ph.D. in Early Childhood Education and Special Education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Castro’s study focuses on quality and equity in the early care and education for English language learners and children from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds and factors affecting the well-being of immigrant children and their families.