 She was later admitted to the Oliver Scholars Program, an independent school access program for high-achieving students of color, and attended Westtown School, a Quaker boarding school in Pennsylvania and graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1996.She later obtained a Master of Arts in journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.Prior to her career with ABC News, Castro was a general assignment reporter for WPIX in New York.