10/31/2025
Our next “Women to Watch” is Antonella Castro. She is a practicing lawyer specializing in real estate transactions, financing, construction, and general business transactions. Antonella graduated Cum Laude/Order of the Coif from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. She has been named as a Southern California Super Lawyers’ Rising Star 2018-2020.
She earned her undergraduate degrees in Crime, Law, and Society, and Psychology and Social Behavior at the University of California, Irvine, where she was a member of the NCAA Division I women’s tennis team and Delta Delta Delta Sorority.
Antonella is a passionate volunteer and philanthropist. In Orange County, she is actively engaged with several local nonprofits and civic organizations. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Orange County United Way, member of its Executive Committee and Co-Chair of the Advocacy Committee. She previously served as the Leadership Chair for the United for Student Success initiative from 2020-2025. She is the current Chair of the Newport Beach Foundation, an organization whose mission is to ignite the next generation of Newport Beach civic, philanthropic and business leaders, Antonella is responsible for launching a scholarship for graduating high school seniors and runs the Distinguished Citizen Program which has graduated approximately 400 Newport Beach residents. A large number of these graduates go on to serve the City either on a board, committee, commission or foundation. Antonella, joined the Newport Beach Public Library Board of Trustees in 2023, and is serving her second term as Vice Chair. Additionally, Antonella is a member of National Charity League Juniors where she serves as Vice President of Philanthropy, and she recently joined the Friends of Oasis as an Advocate Board member.
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