Padrón Campus Appoints Interim Honors College Director

Marianne Maduro started as the interim Honors College director at the Eduardo J. Padrón Campus on Aug. 29.

Maduro will help Honors College students with enrollment and advisement.

She replaces Magda Castineyra, who is now the interim dean of the program. 

“I’m really thankful for this opportunity… and really excited to start working with the students and building relationships with [them] right away,” Maduro said.

Maduro, 42, began working at Miami Dade College as an assistant to the dean of the Honors College eight years ago. In 2021, she became the manager of the Teaching & Learning Center at Wolfson Campus. While there, she worked on the Opening the Gateways grant which focuses on mathematical success and emotional intelligence.

Before MDC, Maduro worked as a senior programs officer for The Miami Foundation—a local philanthropic foundation—from 2011 to 2014. A year prior, she served a year-long tenure as a market specialist at Bank of America.

After graduating with an associate’s degree in psychology from MDC Kendall in 2001, Maduro transferred to Florida International University where she earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology and anthropology in 2005 and a master’s degree in public administration in 2018.