After losing her Navy daughter, Esmi Cantu-Castle says faith and service helped her turn pain into purpose as she launches a grassroots campaign to represent South Texas.
It began as a mother’s heartbreak, but now it has become a movement to restore faith, unity, and opportunity in South Texas.
Esmeralda ‘Esmi’ Cantu-Castle told Fox News Digital that running for public office was never a part of the plan. She had never thought about running for Texas state representative in House District 37.
A mother, law student and woman of deep faith, her life took many unexpected turns, including the death of her husband and the day her daughter, Navy seaman Angelina Resendiz, went missing. That moment, and everything that followed, changed her forever.