Derricia Castillo-Salazar (born 1988), also known as Derricia Jael Castillo, is a Belizean military officer, aircraft maintenance officer of the Belize Defence Force (BDF) and LGBT activist.
She is the co-founder and president of Our Circle (Belize), an organization dedicated to the inclusion of the LGBT community.
[2] Since Castillo co-founded the voluntary organization Our Circle in 2014, it has engaged approximately 200 members of the LGBT community, as well as provided safe spaces to educate, empower and build the community in Belize.
[3][4] She has assisted in the creation and implementation a Belize Defence Force HIV Response, spoken at the 38th meeting of UNAIDS in Geneva, worked as a conflict mediator, and is a member of the Caribbean Women's Alliance for Diversity and Equality.
[5][6] On March 29, 2017, chargé d'affaires Adrienne Galanek of the United States embassy awarded Derricia Castillo as the U.S. Department of State’s International Women of Courage Award nominee for Belize for her work for inclusion of the LGBT community in Belize and AIDS prevention, policy, and response within the Belize Defence Force during the 12th Annual Outstanding Women’s Awards Ceremony, along with Jane Ellen Mary Usher, recognized as the Embassy’s Woman of the Year 2017.