Toni Castro

A champion for student success and inclusive excellence, Toni celebrates 30 rewarding years in higher education, serving as a student affairs practitioner/administrator at CSU Sonoma, Highline College and North Seattle College.

Her commitment to access, equity and diversity began in the Educational Opportunity Program at CSU Sonoma. She celebrates 22 years at Highline, where she served as Multicultural Director, Associate Dean for Diversity and Student Development and the Vice President for Student Services/CSAO from 2006-2018. At NSC, she served as Special Assistant to the President conducting a SWOT analysis and cultural scan charting local and national trends and building recommendations for responsive changes in NSC’s Student Services Division. In August 2019, she assumed her Interim VPSS position and will remain in this role until a permanent VPSS is hired.

A long-standing member of the National Association of Student Affairs in Higher Education -NASPA, Toni received the Scott Goodnight Award for Outstanding Performance as a Dean (2007) and the NASPA Community College Professionals Award (2013). In 2010, the Washington Multicultural Services Director’s Council presented her with the Rhonda Quash Coats Award for Excellence in Multicultural Services.  

Some of her most rewarding professional pursuits have been serving as a Faculty Member for NASPA’s Undergraduate Fellows Program, and the Aspiring and New Senior Student Affairs Officer Institutes. She served for over a decade, as member and past chair of the Masters in Student Development Administration Program Advisory Board at Seattle University.