Bonnie Castillo

Bonnie Castillo is the executive director of National Nurses United and of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee.[1][2][3] Before being named as executive director, she was the director of the Registered Nurse Response Network (RNRN),[4] a disaster relief program run by NNU that places registered nurse volunteers where they are needed after man-made and natural catastrophes.[5] She has coordinated RN volunteers to help in the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Typhoon Haiyan, hurricanes Katrina, Harvey and Maria, and elsewhere.

Bonnie Castillo
Born1960 (age 60–61)
EducationCalifornia State University, Sacramento (BS)

Castillo also held the positions of CNA/NNOC Director of Government Relations and NNU Director of Health and Safety.[6][7][8] She has been with CNA/NNOC for almost two decades[2] in a number of capacities, working her way up into the leadership of the organization from her early days as a registered nurse member who helped to unionize her facility, to staff and then lead organizer, to a director, and now to her current position as Executive Director. In 2020, Castillo was named to the TIME 100 list of the most influential people in the world.[9]In January 2021, Castillo was named to The Nation's annual honor roll, which recognizes progressive activists and leaders who helped keep hope alive and set the groundwork for transformational change in 2021.[10]

References
  1. Ibarra, Ana B. (8 May 2018). "Longtime 'Fighter' Lands Top Spot In Powerful Nurses Union".
  2. "Prominent nurses union names first-ever Latina executive director: 5 things to know". www.beckershospitalreview.com.
  3. Colliver, Victoria. "California's nurses union loses longtime leader, but not agenda". POLITICO.
  4. Munro, Dan. "National Nursing Survey: 80% Of Hospitals Have Not Communicated An Infectious Disease Policy". Forbes.
  5. "Nurse Volunteers Say Puerto Ricans Are Dying- Here's How Nurses Can Help". nurse.org.
  6. "Ground-Breaking Workplace Safety Benefit Designed to Protect Nurses from Needlesticks, Violence". Infection Control Today. 22 November 2017.
  7. "Lawsuit claims Ohio nurse was 'worked to death'". 12 November 2013.
  8. Star, Ventura County Star Ventura County (5 January 2013). "Nurses 'Shocked' At New Birth Control Law". HuffPost.
  9. "Bonnie Castillo: The 100 Most Influential People of 2020". Time. Retrieved Dec 5, 2020.
  10. https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/2020-progressive-leaders/
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