Meet the Puente Family

Puente Counselor/Coordinator
gcastro@elcamino.edu 
310-660-3593 x3403
Student Services, Room 268

Griselda Castro has been a full-time counselor at El Camino College since fall 2008. She is also an ECC Puente alumna and has an associate degree from El Camino College in business administration, a bachelor's degree from LMU and a master's degree from Cal State Dominguez Hills. 

Griselda came to this country at eight years of age and has lived in the South Bay since.  She attended Perry Middle School and Gardena High. She enjoys a variety of exercise activities as well as walking at the beach and hiking.  She also enjoys traveling and spending time with her two dogs.

Puente Counselor/Coordinator
mhernandez@elcamino.edu 
310-660-3593 x6568
Student Services, Room 266

Maribel Hernandez is one of the counselors and co-coordinator of the Puente Program.  She earned her bachelor’s degree from UC Santa Cruz and her master’s degree in counseling from Cal State Long Beach. 

Even though she was not a Puente student herself, she learned about the Puente Program in her undergraduate research and was so thrilled about this type of program at the community college that she recruited her sister to be a part of the program and became a Puente mentor.  She began counseling at El Camino College in 2005 and was assigned to the Puente Program in 2009 as a part-time counselor but was hired full-time as the Puente counselor and co-coordinator in 2015.