Darcy Castro
About Darcy
#Integrity #Kindness #Respect
A community servant and leader at heart, Darcy’s professional background includes public relations, journalism and event planning focusing on non-profits. She cares about creating community, building relationships, meeting the needs of others and leaving things better than she found them. Above all she is committed to collaboration for the common good and is always looking for new and creative ways to help others.
Darcy lives in West Cobb County, Georgia and is an Elder at Kirkwood Presbyterian Church. In her free time, you will find her hiking, collecting books, volunteering in church ministry, spending time with her family and dreaming up copious ideas for making her community an even better place for all. She is a proud Air Force wife (retired!) and mother of four thriving children who have attended Cobb County schools.
Darcy cares deeply about and works to promote policy in the following interest areas:
Women, children and families
Reproductive freedom and justice
Interfaith alliances
Sustainability and waste management
Fiscal responsibility
Common sense firearms safety
Cat overpopulation
Social media and AI regulation
Special education access
Voting rights and election access
Bipartisan cooperation
âVeteran support
Accomplishments
1999 Graduate with honors from Portland State University
2025 Graduate of the Cobb Citizen Government Academy
We the People: Civic Engagement in a Constitutional Democracy, certification from HarvardX
Led a successful community campaign to save the Rockwall County Library
Served as Mrs. Georgia America 2021
Served as the 2019 Elite American Woman of Service
Junior Woman’s Club Provisional Member of the Year
Eric Medeiros Memorial Foundation Volunteer Award
Three-time Presidential Service Award Winner
Led fundraising campaign with the International Rescue Committee to house an Afghan refugee family of six
Parent advisor to the Harrison Hoya HOV (Helping our Veterans)
Special Advocacy
"How I Feel About Dad’s Brain Tumor” by Darcy Castro is a short story coupled with a medical glossary and guided journal to help kids of parents diagnosed with a brain tumor navigate their emotions. Specially written for children and teens, this thoughtful account of a daughter's experience having a parent with a brain tumor aims to help children understand they are not alone in their experience, while giving them the tools they need to build their own emotional intelligence and support network.
The book utilizes the elements of storytelling, education and creativity to address a child’s emotions, anxiety and concern that comes with a parent’s brain tumor diagnosis.