Xiomara Romain

Xiomara Romain is the Executive Director of LIFT-NY, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping families break the cycle of intergenerational poverty. LIFT’s innovative coaching program helps parents-mostly women of color set career, financial and educational goals in order to achieve economic mobility. Xiomara has worked in leadership roles in a range of organizations for over 20 years, leading teams and strategy at several nonprofit organizations including Vera Institute of Justice, Mentor New York, the Center for Community Alternatives, Family Residences and Essential Enterprises, TASC, Children of Promise, NYC and the Bedford Stuyvesant YMCA. Xiomara holds an MA from the CUNY Graduate Center at Brooklyn College, a BA from Morgan State University in Maryland and is all but dissertation towards her PhD in Organizational Leadership with a concentration in nonprofit management from the Chicago School. Her dissertation is entitled “Intersectionality and Job Satisfaction of Women of Color in the Nonprofit Sector”.