Castro has received the research-creation grant from CEIIDA-UNAL,  the PBEE grant from the National Foundation for Arts and Culture and Object Art first prize from the 3rd Biennial Puebla de los Ángeles in Mexico. In Bolivia she received the La Paz award from the International Art Biennial SIART and the Open Territories Commission of mARTadero Culture Center.

She has published articles in the journals Artnodes (Open University of Catalonia), Arte y Políticas de Identidad (University of Murcia) and Cultural Geographies (Sage Publications). She is professor of the Cinema & Communications Department at UDEM.

Her work has been shown in spaces such as Ethnography and Folklore Museum (La Paz), Jardín Borda (Cuernavaca), Transmediale festival (Berlin), SIGGRAPH Asia, Stamps Gallery (University of Michigan), Motomoto-air (Kumamoto) and Zonas de contacto: Art History in a Global Network at DHAJ Gallery (Berkeley University / Samuel H. Kress Foundation).