She received her Ph.D. in Education with an interdisciplinary emphasis in Language, Interaction and Social Organization, from the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Dr. Romero’s research interests focus on the study of multilingualism and multimodal communication in linguistically diverse settings and with underrepresented students. She has served as faculty at UNLV and faculty-administrator at the Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro, Mexico. She has published in both English and Spanish.