Victoria E. Romero

Victoria E. Romero is an educator with over 42 years of experience working as a classroom teacher, principal, and leadership coach. She continues to coach administrators, directors, principals, vice principals, and school leadership teams for equity and sustainable school improvement in multiple school districts in Washington. Romero is a certified consultant whose work focuses on the impact of traumatization on students’ social-emotional needs and on creating school cultures that foster resilience.

Romero is the lead author of two Corwin Press books: Building Resilience in Students Impacted by Adverse Childhood Experiences: A Whole-Staff Approach (2018), co-authored with Ricky Robertson and Amber Warner, and Race Resilience: Achieving Equity Through Self and Systems Transformation (2021), co-authored with Amber N. Warner and Justin Hendrickson. In her more recent work, she provides guidance to school staff on engaging in authentic dialogue about how racialization and racial positioning influence perceptions, behaviors, expectations, and decisions, emphasizing that systems change when the people working within them change.