Administrator Set Solid Course for Twin Rising Stars - Higher Education: On the eve of her retirement as director of the Center for Academic Transitions at Alamo Community College in San Antonio, María del Rosario Castro, or just “Rosie Castro,” has not only helped underserved students navigate the often barrier-fraught landscape of academia, but she’s nurtured, trained and inspired two of the Democratic Party’s rising political stars, her identical-twin sons, Julian Castro and Joaquin Castro. Julian, the youngest mayor of a top 50 city, San Antonio, and Joaquin, a newly minted Texas congressman in the U.S. House of Representatives, spent their teen years accompanying mom to rallies and working campaigns. As a first-generation college graduate, an activist in the Raza Unida Party in the 1970s, a member of several boards, a community advocate and a leader in academia, Rosie set the bar high for her two sons, who both attended Stanford University and Harvard Law School, then returned home for a career in public service. Here the higher ed administrator turned famous political mom talks education and policy with Diverse.
