Receives International Award for Promoting Peace in Childhood Through Music

• With her project Onda Regia, Lucía Castillo has found in cumbia and vallenato a powerful tool to foster community unity and strengthen cultural identity, earning her the international Newman Civic Fellowship 2025–2026.

Lucía Castillo, a seventh-semester student of the Information and Communication Sciences program at the Universidad de Monterrey, was recognized with the Newman Civic Fellowship 2025–2026, an international distinction awarded to young changemakers committed to the well-being of their communities.