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Marelen Castillo
Member of the Chamber of Representatives
Incumbent
Assumed office 20 July 2022
Preceded by	Ángela Robledo
Personal details
Born	Marlen Castillo Torres (1968-08-30) 30 August 1968 (age 56) Cali, Colombia
Political party	Independent
Other political affiliations	League of Anti-Corruption Governors
Spouse	Wilson Sánchez ​(m. 1994)​
Children	2

Marelen Castillo Torres (born 30 August 1968) is a Colombian teacher, biology and chemistry graduate, industrial engineer, and researcher. She is a member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia.

Early life and education

Castillo was born in the La Base neighborhood of Comuna 8 in Cali, the eldest of five sisters. Her mother is a seamstress and Afro-Colombian from Buenaventura (Valle del Cauca), and her father was a public official of the Regional Autonomous Corporation of Valle del Cauca. Raised in a Catholic family, she is a practicing Catholic and a member of the Formation Center for New Evangelization and Catechesis (CEFNEC). She married Wilson Sánchez in 1994 and her son Wilson Andrés was born in 1998. Her daughter María Camila was born in 2000.

Castillo studied at the Nuestra Señora del Pilar school, then from 1987 to 1992 Castillo earned a degree in biology and chemistry at the Santiago de Cali University. From 1995 to 2000 she studied industrial engineering at the Autonomous University of the West, obtaining an engineering degree in 2001. From 2005 to 2007 she studied at the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, earning a master's degree in business administration and management. From 2013 to 2016 she studied at Nova Southeastern University in Florida in the United States, graduating in 2017 with a doctorate in education with an emphasis on Organizational Leadership-Education and Administrative Management. She is a Woman For Boards at EGADE Business School of the Technological of Monterey.

Career

In 1990 Castillo began her work as a teacher and taught biology at the Colegio Nuestra Señora del Pilar. She worked there for 11 years and also taught chemistry at the Colegio Mayor Santiago de Cali, an institution of the Archdiocese of Cali.

From 2001 to 2006, Castillo worked at the Lumen Gentium Catholic University Foundation as a teacher, dean and vice-chancellor and acting rector. She also worked at the IU Digital University of Antioquia where she has been an Academic Par and educational consultant. In 2007 she moved to Bogotá, and from 2009 to 2021 she worked at the Minuto de Dios University Corporation as a researcher, director of strategic initiatives, and academic vice-chancellor. In 2011 she became the virtual and distance rector. She is a doctoral professor at Nova Southeastern University.

2022 vice presidential candidacy

In March 2022, when Castillo was Academic Vice Chancellor of Uniminuto, she agreed to be the vice-presidential candidate for Rodolfo Hernández Suárez, replacing Paola Ochoa who resigned. Castillo had no prior experience in politics. Three months before the presidential elections, she said "Rodolfo was looking for a vice president. As none of the businessmen she contacted accepted her proposal, and a journalist rejected it. So Rodolfo asked for resumes from his staff, and I sent mine on the advice of a friend." The campaign was carried out with the endorsement of the citizens group League of Anti-Corruption Governors, and in the first round they achieved second place in voting with almost six million votes, advancing to the second round held on 19 June. Castillo and Hernández were defeated in the runoff.

Following the election, Castillo announced that she would accept a seat in the Chamber of Representatives, reserved for the vice-presidential runner-up. Castillo, along with all members of Congress, was sworn in on 20 July.

Publications

Castillo is the author and co-author of several articles and texts related to virtual and distance education, as well as learning environments, such as:

• Quality guidelines for verifying the quality conditions of virtual and distance programs. - Author;
• Guidelines for application, granting and renewal of qualified registration. - Co-author.

Notes

1. Declared elected as the vice presidential runner up in the 2022 Colombian presidential election

References

1. • "Marelen Castillo, la desconocida vicepresidenta de Rodolfo Hernández". El País (in Spanish). 29 May 2022. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
   • "Ella es Marelen Castillo, fórmula vicepresidencial 2022" (in Spanish). 29 May 2022. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
   • Tiempo, Casa Editorial El (29 June 2021). "Rodolfo Hernández inscribió su candidatura para la Presidencia en 2022". El Tiempo (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 June 2022.
   • Turkewitz, Julie (30 May 2022). "'Es un momento histórico': la izquierda de Petro y el populismo de Hernández van a segunda vuelta". The New York Times (in Spanish). ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
2. "Estos son los candidatos finales a Presidencia y Vicepresidencia". Portafolio.co (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 June 2022.
3. "Meet the two black women bidding to make VP history in Colombia". Buenos Aires Times. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
4. Tiempo, Casa Editorial El. "Marelen Castillo, la fórmula poco conocida de Rodolfo Hernández". Portafolio.co (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 June 2022.
5. "Petro and Hernández Head to Presidential Runoff in Colombia". Global Americans. 3 June 2022. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
6. de 2022, 29 de Mayo (30 May 2022). "Marelen Castillo, la académica que se convirtió en fórmula vicepresidencial de Rodolfo Hernández". infobae (in European Spanish). Retrieved 16 June 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
7. Cali, Casa Editorial El País (2 March 2022). "¿Quién es Marelen Castillo, la nueva fórmula vicepresidencial de Rodolfo Hernández?". elpais.com.co (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 June 2022.
8. "En Colombie, deux afro-descendantes en compétition pour la vice-présidence". Le Monde.fr (in French). 14 June 2022. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
9. ""Seré opositora si no se le cumple al pueblo colombiano": Marelen Castillo irá a la Cámara". Semana (in Spanish). 20 June 2022. Retrieved 22 June 2022.
10. "Colombia's congress begins new session with ambitious reform agenda". Reuters. 21 July 2022. Archived from the original on 21 July 2022. Retrieved 21 July 2022.

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