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ABOUT

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I am Dr. Christina M. Castro

Taos Pueblo/Jemez Pueblo/Xicana

Dr. Christina M. Castro was born in Southern California into a family who participated in the Indian Relocation program; a federal policy enacted in the 1950’s to assimilate Native people into the dominant culture by moving them into urban centers under the guise of vocational training. She currently  resides in O’ga P’ogeh, Santa Fe, NM within her traditional Pueblo territory. Dr. Castro is a mother, writer, scholar, educator, community organizer, multidimensional artist, public speaker and more. She co-founded the Three Sisters Collective in 2017, a Pueblo/Indigenous women-led grassroots organization devoted to the rematriation and restoration of Indigenous lifeways. She received her Doctorate from the Pueblo PhD Program at Arizona State University’s School of Social Transformation and Justice Studies in 2018 and is an independent consultant with Castro Consulting, LLC.

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EDUCATIONAL MYSTORY

PhD in Philosophy, Arizona State University, School of Social Transformation & Justice Studies, 2018 - Dissertation: An Exploration of Three Generations of a Jemez Pueblo Family Impacted by Federal Indian Relocation Policy: Identity, Indigeneity and Notions of Belonging

 

Master of Secondary Education, Cameron University, Lawton, OK 2003

 

Master of Fine Arts, Creative Writing, University of Arizona, 2000

 

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Major in Creative Writing, Minor in Women’s Studies, University of New Mexico, 1997

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MY WORK

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Native Hope Podcast

 This podcast talks about my life, upbringing, how I got to be where I am today. Interview with Dr. Christina M Castro, 5/5/2019.

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reLocated Exhibit

reLocated: Urban Migration, Perseverance, Adaptation. An exhibit I curated at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM 

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Grounded in Clay

Grounded in Clay Exhibit and Publication for Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, Santa Fe (2022) & The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Vilcek Foundation, New York (2023), St. Louis Art Museum (2025)

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Dondé esta Lupita - EP 4

Highlighting the significance of Guadalupe to the Tewa of O'ga P'ogeh Owingeh. Featured at minutes 13 and 48. 

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The Legacy of Kit Carson

Moderator, The Legacy of Kit Carson, An Indigenous Perspective, Three Sisters Collective, 3/23/21

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What Does the Future Hold

What Does the Future Hold For a Growing Mixed-Blood Native Population, 

NDN Collective, 1/6/19.

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ReUnite

"ReUnite: Welcome to the Mycroverse" written and directed by Christina M. Castro at the Popejoy Hall in Albuquerque (2023)

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Tonantzin Guadalupe, la madre ancestral- EP 5

Is Guadalupe a symbol of colonization or resistance?

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This is Not O'Keefe Country

Panelist, Discussion, This is Not O’Keeffe Country, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum

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Need for More Change

Indigenous Peoples’ Day Highlights Need For More Change, The Paper., 10/8/21

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Our Future is Indigenous

Produced by Wingspan Media. 10/4/2023

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If not us, who will do it?

Interview with Red Nation about Rio Arriba potentially resurrecting the Oñate statue. 

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From Standing Rock to Taos Pueblo: Indigenous Women in Advocacy

 Moderated by Christina M. Castro, PhD, the panel shares stories from their recent projects and engages in a dialogue about the power of art to disrupt inequitable systems and imagine a future grounded in Indigenous liberation.

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