Vio­le­ta Cas­tro Stolpen (she/​her) is the Direc­tor of Oper­a­tions at Jew­ti­na y Co., an orga­ni­za­tion that shapes inclu­sive, joy­ful, and resilient Latin-Jew­ish com­mu­ni­ties. Vio­le­ta is a sea­soned non­prof­it man­age­ment pro­fes­sion­al and an avid read­er with a spe­cial inter­est in 20th cen­tu­ry Amer­i­can and Latin Amer­i­can lit­er­a­ture. She was born in Gua­na­ju­a­to, Mex­i­co and grew up out­side of Philadel­phia, Penn­syl­va­nia, where she is rais­ing two young Latin-Jew­ish boys.