Elizabeth Castillo is an assistant professor of organizational leadership in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts. Her research explores prosocial organizing and resource exchange to create an economy that works for everyone. She is a 2020 recipient of the Aspen Institute’s Ideas Worth Teaching award, a global prize for innovation that transforms business education. Her scholarship is informed by ecological and evolutionary principles like mutualism, energy flows across food webs, and cultural evolution, with the goal of developing theories, practices, and policies that promote equity, inclusion, antifragility, and open-endedness in organizations and society.

She is secretary of the International Humanistic Management Association’s U.S. chapter and a member of the leadership team of the Integrated Reporting U.S. community. She serves on the economic justice advisory committee of the Nonprofit Quarterly and is active in the United Nations’ Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) initiative. Castillo’s research is inspired by two decades of management experience at the San Diego Natural History Museum and Balboa Park Cultural Partnership. Her work is published in academic journals like The Leadership Quarterly and professional publications such as Nonprofit Quarterly. She is an avid hiker and nature photographer. Her mission is to repair the world through scholarship that promotes thriving organizations, fulfilled people, connected communities, and a world we can be proud to pass on to our children.