Rubén Castilla Herrera, Chief Consultant, Herrera and Associates

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. His earned income as a child laborer was a vital part of family income from ages 7-13. The Herrera family settled in the rich farmlands of the Willamette Valley in the state of Oregon.

He graduated from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon and from the Methodist Theological School in Delaware, Ohio.

He was 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.

Currently Rubén Castilla Herrera is Chief Consultant of Herrera and Associates. Herrera and Associates is a consulting group specializing in the development of learning organizations 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.

Herrera is an active member of Broad Street United Methodist Church in downtown Columbus, Ohio and is an active community member serving on numerous boards and advisory groups in Central Ohio. He has lived in Ohio for 18 years.

Herrera has four children and five grandchildren.