Karla Romero is the founding president and chief executive officer of Mass Appeal International, a food rescue program that provides meals to more than 2,000 people each month. The organization also has a mentoring program to help underprivileged youth and sponsors a Youth Ambassador program to provide volunteer and civic opportunities to women. Romero represented Boston in the Miss USA Pageant as Miss Boston and has served as a motivational speaker for high-risk urban youth, promoting higher education, civic duty, self-determination and pride in diversity.
- Nombre: Karla Romero
- Título: Presidenta fundadora
- Compañía: Mass Appeal International
- Estudios: Maestría, Suffolk University
- Residencia: Malden
- Parte favorita de su trabajo: Hacer del mundo un lugar mejor que el heredado
- Parte más difícil de su trabajo: Lograr lo imposible
- Lugar favorito para vacacionar: Mónaco
- Talento inusual: Poesía, la palabra hablada
- Libro favorito: Del poeta renacentista Lemon Andersen y de la escritora Gloria Anzaldúa
- Película favorita: «Like Water for Chocolate» y «Black Orpheus»
- Restaurante favorito: Top of the Hub
- Artista/Música que me relaja: «A Love Supreme», de John Coltrane
- Música que me estimula: música house
- Frase favorita: «Unum Sumus» (We are but one soul)