Ep 2: Interview with Christina Romero - How High School Award Pave the Way for Business Success

Send us a textJeanniey Walden  speaks to Christina Romero in this episode and explores how your passions in high school can turn into the fires that create a successful professional career.  If you are in college, or recently out of college, this podcast is for you!If you haven't spent time with Christina yet, you should. Here is her impressive background.Christina Romero has served as the Executive Director of the Office College Advancement and Santa Ana College Foundation for over 15 years. Working to empower Santa Ana College students through building the external, internal, and capital resources needed to see students strive and complete their educational and career goals. During her tenure, the portfolio of the Office of College Advancement has won several marketing and branding awards nationally and statewide. In addition, the SAC Foundation has grown in total assets and size from $3.2 million to over $16 million. As a relationship and communications strategy expert and infectious public speaker, she has elevated the story, brand, and overall philanthropy portfolio of the college and its students to another level. She is continually focused on increasing internal and external awareness and funding of and for the college, in partnership with all valued constituents including alumni, businesses, foundations, executive leadership teams, corporate, and other private key stakeholders. Her management style has created big results, with a 400% growth of assets and millions of dollars invested back to students, faculty, staff.Christina’s leadership and management style has grown the Advancement team from two to six professionals, still small but mighty; and she has led them to achieve significant results ranking Santa Ana College’s Advancement and Foundation in the top 10% of community college foundations based on asset and overall successes.Christina has worked alongside several Presidents, Executive Cabinets, and City Officials, and has helped build a deeply engaged and healthy Foundation Board of Directors, that is focused on aligning their philanthropic efforts with the college’s strategic goals. This ensures maximum impact and relevance for the Foundation and its mission. She works closely with faculty and other college constituents to connect and develop wide-scale strategic initiatives for further resource development, as well as directs and executes successful large-scale fundraising campaigns and produces highly visible branding and marketing pieces that showcase the college at large.Christina is a passionate storyteller, facilitator and is known for building teams and consensus in her work and the portfolios she manages. She brings enthusiasm and infectious energy as she engages and leads, all with a focus on students and a deep passion for the brand and mission of Santa Ana College in mind.Support the showSee what we look like; subscribe to our YouTube channelWatch the TV show"LiftOff with Jeanniey Walden" Follow us on TwitterFollow us on InstagramTalk to us on FacebookMeet Jeanniey live - see where she will be next.