Silvia Castro consults with the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute on economics, small businesses, and minority-owned businesses. She is the Executive Director of the Suazo Business Center.

Her experience includes consulting for Fortune 500 companies, the State of Utah, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, and forward-looking non-profits such as the Utah Microenterprise Loan Fund, the Austin Project, in Austin, TX, and the Goldman Sachs 10K Program. Ms. Castro currently serves on the Executive Committee of Envision Utah, Wasatch Front Regional Council’s Economic Development District, Salt Lake Community College Board of Trustees, Utah Governor’s COVID Economic Taskforce, and the Governor’s COVID Multicultural Taskforce.

She has a Bachelor of Arts in International Business from Westminster College and an MBA from the University of Utah.