Team

Dr. Romero is an Assistant Professor in the combined School/Clinical Child Psychology program at the University of Texas at Austin. She/Ella graduated from the University of Missouri School Psychology program. She completed her predoctoral internship at the Santa Barbara Psychological Internship Consortium (SBPIC) in the Santa Barbara Unified School District.

Dr. Romero's research focuses on four lines of inquiry: (1) developing and evaluating culturally and linguistically responsive interventions with a focus on academic, social-emotional learning, and mental health for emergent bilingual/multilingual learners and Latiné/x students; (2) investigating multi-tiered system of supports (MTSS) and data-based decision making (DBDM) in schools; (3) family-school-community collaboration practices for newcomer students and families; and (4) training of bilingual school psychologists.

Dr. Romero is a Nationally Certified School Psychologist and is passionate about working with school and communities to support the Latine/x and multilingual community.