Born to Victoria Castro and Edward Perez, Rosie was raised by her mother and a guardian, Marcia Garcia, in San Antonio.
[2] Growing up in the San Antonio barrio, Castro cited the beginning of her interest in social justice in witnessing the racial and economic boundaries that affected her family, especially her mother.
[3] With a scholarship from her valedictorian title and other financial means, she successfully enrolled at Our Lady of the Lake University, intending to become a teacher, before earning a degree in Spanish in 1971.
[3] Castro earned a Master of Public Administration from University of Texas at San Antonio Rosie first worked as a volunteer for Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1964 presidential campaign.
However, today, years later, I read the newspapers, and I see that more Valdezes are sitting on school boards, that a greater number of Garcias are now doctors, lawyers, engineers, and of course, teachers.”[11]