Issabella Romo

Issabella Romo is an Associate with Pan-American Strategic Advisors focused on technology, energy, and trade and their intersection with human rights, gender issues, and the environment.

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Issabella is based in DC and works in government relations, building coalitions and federal policy solutions addressing tech and energy industry challenges. With 5 years of leadership experience in the nonprofit sector, Issabella has scaled youth-led organizations and refined change-making strategies within long-standing institutions. She has worked across all levels of government, led initiatives to increase youth civic participation, and designed strategies for NGOs in Latin America and the Caribbean. While at Georgetown University, she centered her graduate studies around responsible technology policy and Latin America and the Caribbean.

 

Issabella has also conducted research on femicide in Mexico and global policies addressing violence against women and conducted open-source investigations for the UC Berkeley Human Rights Center, Climate Cardinals, and the UC Berkeley Institute for International Studies.

 

Issabella holds a Master of Public Policy with a Certificate in Gender, Peace, and Security from Georgetown University. A California native, she earned bachelor’s degrees in political economy and legal studies with a minor in human rights from the University of California, Berkeley.