Auna M. Candelaria Castellón

Auna M. Candelaria Castellón currently serves as the College and Career Readiness Manager at NAYA Family Center, where roles have included Interim College & Career Coordinator and College Preparation Coach since November 2019. Previous experience includes an Adjunct Instructor position at Portland State University from January to September 2022 and a board membership at Next Up from February 2019 to February 2020. Auna held multiple Department Administrator roles at Portland State University’s College of Education between November 2018 and October 2019 and worked as a Research Assistant in Indigenous Nations Studies and Chicano Latino Studies. Auna's educational background includes a Bachelor of Science in Indigenous Nations and Native American Studies and a Bachelor of Science in Political Science from Portland State University, as well as an Associate of Arts in Organic Chemistry from Walla Walla Community College.