Domenico Romero is currently a senior program officer at the Unitarian
Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock. He has over twenty years of
experience supporting movements for social justice in Mexico and the United
States, with an emphasis on increasing the quality and breadth of people’s
participation in the political and economic arenas. He holds a PhD in political
science from the CUNY Graduate Center and the focus of his research are social
movements, participatory democracy, and participatory economics. Prior to
joining Veatch Domenico worked as a consultant doing research, policy analysis,
and political education on projects that support grassroots movements, and also
taught political science at Queens College, CUNY. Before this, he coordinated
leadership building, campaign development, and electoral organizing in various
organizations led by low-income and immigrant communities, such as Neighbor
to Neighbor MA, the Long Island Civic Participation Project, the Organizing
Support Center, and the Latino Workers’ Center. Before migrating to the U.S., he
also organized for democratization, human rights, and economic justice in urban
and rural regions in Mexico.