Ingrid E. Castro is Professor of Sociology at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, USA. She is the editor of five collected volumes: Researching Children and Youth (2017), Representing Agency in Popular Culture (2019), Child and Youth Agency in Science Fiction (2019), Childhood, Agency, and Fantasy (2021), and Child and Youth Studies: A Reader (2026). She is currently the Co-Chair of the Eastern Sociological Society’s Committee on Gender Equity and is a former Chair of the American Sociological Association’s Section on Children and Youth. In 2026, she became the Founder of the American Sociological Association’s newest section—Creative Sociology.