Ronaldo Castellanos

Many students know Señor Rolando Castellanos as an Upper School Spanish teacher but on Speaker Day he shared the story of how he got there. Castellanos was born in Cuba right only a few years before Fidel Castro’s communist regime took control of the country and it impacted his life dramatically. His family first moved to the United States without him and after ten years of separation he rejoined them on the first immigration visa to the U.S. from Cuba since the Cuban Embargo. After being part of it’s history, Castellanos welcomes a new chapter of Cuban-American relations with reform policies that have come in 2015.

Many students know Señor Rolando Castellanos as an Upper School Spanish teacher, but on Speaker Day, he shared the story of how he got here, alone, from Cuba.