Betsy Castro is the founding Vice President of Finance and Operations at Latinos for Education, where she brings deep experience in finance and operations, entrepreneurship, project management, and strategy. She is the founder of Castro Concepts, LLC, a boutique, consulting firm providing fractional chief financial services to mission-driven organizations.
With over 15 years of experience, Betsy is a finance, operations, and people strategist who ensures financial sustainability, operational excellence, and an inclusive work environment. Her experience has ranged from public accounting to corporate operations, and now, nonprofit leadership. She’s managed budgets ranging from $1.1M to $3.2B and has led teams of up to 30 staff.
Betsy has worked for a wide range of impactful organizations, including being a founding leader at a charter school that serves English Language Learners. She has sat on the Board of EmpowHERto, The Honor Yoga Foundation, and Blue Sky Talk. Her work in nonprofit leadership earned her the 2020 Harold L. Conover Leadership Award for exhibiting exemplary leadership qualities in a non-profit organization. Betsy holds a Master’s in Business Administration and a Bachelor’s in Accounting from Rider University.
Being originally from the Dominican Republic, she intimately understands the challenges of being Latino in America. Betsy is driven by her experiences and values. She aims to inspire future women leaders, specifically Latinas and other women of color. In her free time, she enjoys cooking, traveling with her husband, reading, and taming her unruly garden. She currently lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Her father served in the United States Air Force, making her early childhood a multi-cultural journey beginning in Spain, making stops in Upstate New York and Panamá, and eventually settling in the state of Florida. There, she earned a BS in Psychology from the University of Florida and an MS in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Central Florida, graduating with honors from both institutions. She is also a Teach For America alumna (D.C. Region, 2011). As a proud Puerto Rican who owes her success to countless mentors who believed in her potential, she is passionate about being able to pay it forward to her community through her work.