Sheila Bustillos, Ph.D.
Director of Strategic Initiatives
Texas Alliance for Child and Family Services

Sheila Bustillos is the Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Texas Alliance for Child and Family Services. She has a Ph.D. in Multicultural Women’s and Gender Studies at Texas Woman’s University. She earned a M.Ed. in Counseling and Guidance with an Emphasis in Higher Education Administration from Texas State University-San Marcos and a BESS in Pre-Physical Therapy with a minor in Health and Wellness from Texas State University. Her dissertation, titled “Foster Care Parenthood: Exploring Multigenerational Involvement,” is a qualitative investigation of cyclical removals in the Texas foster care system focused on former foster care parenthood experiences.

​In the past, Sheila has worked for The University of Texas at Austin as a Program Coordinator for a multi-million dollar National Science Foundation Grant and as a Program Coordinator for the Vice President for Student Affairs Office at Texas State University in Retention Management and Planning. Sheila was a co-collaborator of the first foster care support group at Texas State University while employed there and continues to research and support foster alumni in higher education as a supporter of the Texas Woman's University Frontiers Program.