We’re excited to announce Maria Castro will serve as Keynote of Chicago LIT College Tour.  Maria is Regional External Affairs Manager at Comcast in Chicago.

Maria exudes her personal tagline of “building a better tomorrow for everyone, today” in everything she does. Born and raised in Chicago’s Pilsen community, she is an accomplished industry professional in both multi-cultural and mainstream event marketing, community outreach and corporate social responsibility. Maria attended Barat College in Lake Forest, IL where she studied Business Administration. Maria has more than three decades of helping to deliver and build strong brands for clients such as Proctor & Gamble, Kraft, Quaker Oats, American Express, Citibank and Nestle.

Maria has received numerous awards such the YWCA Woman of Distinction Award, the People with Disabilities Champion Award from Seguin Services and “Maria Castro Day” in the City of Aurora on October 10, 2009. Maria is a co-author of Today’s Inspired #Latinas Volume V, a speaker at the first ever Live Latina Talks in the Chicago area and in September of 2019 at the New York Times. Maria was named as one of Negocios Now 2019’s Who’s Who in #Hispanic Chicago.  In her spare time, Maria enjoys traveling with her husband Martin of 43 years.