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BIOGRAPHY

OF
   
RUBEN CASTILLA HERRERA

Rubén Castilla Herrera is a second generation Mexican-American born in Seguin, Texas. He is the seventh child of a family of eight. Herrera spent his childhood as a migrant farm worker, where his family migrated from Texas to California , Oregon and Washington . The Herrera family settled in the rich farmlands of the Willamette Valley in the state of Oregon.  Mr. Herrera graduated from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon and attended the Methodist Theological School in Delaware, Ohio.

He has served as the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Director of the A World of Difference Institute, a diversity education program of the Anti-Defamation League. He also served as Executive Director of City Year Columbus, an AmeriCorp project. He has taught Conflict Resolution at the Capital University Law School-Center for Dispute Resolution and Diversity in the Workforce classes at the Fisher College of Business of The Ohio State University.
 
Mr. Herrera specializes in assisting organizations in the development of learning through systems thinking and planning, personal mastery, building shared vision, convening conversations that matter, team learning and achieving human potential through diversity and inclusion. He has consulted with several corporations, non-profit organizations, community organizations and faith communities throughout the state, region and country. 
 
He speaks and writes on various issues and current events regarding the Latino/a community in Ohio and the Midwest. He serves on numerous boards and advisory groups including the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Central Ohio, the Latin@ Leadership Initiative and the Franklin County Mental Health Association. Currently, he is involved with the national and local immigration rights movement and in Latin@ leadership development.
 
Herrera is an active member of Broad Street United Methodist Church in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Broad Street United Methodist Church is widely known for its inclusion and ministry to all people.
 
Herrera has four children and six grandchildren. He has lived in Central Ohio for 19 years. 

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