Jenean Castillo

Dr. Castillo is the director of the LEND (Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities) Program. She is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Center on Disability and Health in the School of Health Sciences and Practice at New York Medical College (NYMC) and is the Diversity and Inclusion Coordinator at WIHD. Until recently, she was Assistant Director of WIHD’s Child Welfare Program. Dr. Castillo has been a LEND faculty member and child psychologist at WIHD since completing her post-doctoral fellowship and LEND traineeship in psychology at WIHD in 2003.

Throughout her career, Dr. Castillo has collaborated at the national level on activities and projects related to leadership development, diversity, inclusion, and cultural competence. As a post-doctoral LEND fellow, she served as a national trainee representative in the Diversity Workgroup of the Association of University Centers on Disabilities. In 2016, she was selected as a member of the national cohort for the Cultural and Linguistic Competency Leadership Academy of the National Center for Cultural Competency of Georgetown University. She was named WIHD’s first Diversity and Inclusion Coordinator in 2016. In 2018, NYMC chose her as the first recipient of its Diversity and Inclusion Award.