Tina Romero is an Assistant-Attorney-in-Charge of the Juvenile Rights Project Immigration Team at Legal Aid Society. The JRP Immigration Team provides direction representation in immigration matters to Legal Aid clients caught in the family regulation system. She is on the Steering Committee of the EndSIJSBacklog Coaltion, a national advocacy group seeking immediate permanency for all SIJS youth. In New York, she serves on the Immigration Advisory Group to the to the Permanent Commission on Justice for Families. She coordinates the New York City SIJS Advocates' group. From 2009-2025, Tina provided direct representation to immigrant youth and consulted on immigration issues at the Legal Aid Society. She was a part of the teams that successfully litigated the class action lawsuit R.F.M. v. Nielsen, 365 F. Supp. 350 (SD NY 2019) and its companion case Zabaleta v. Nielsen, 367 F. Supp. 3d 208 (SD NY 2019). In 2014, she started the Immigrant Youth Advocacy Externship at Columbia Law School. She assisted in the creation of the ICARE coalition to ensure unaccompanied youth in New York City obtain representation in immigration court. Tina graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2001 magna cum laude and received her J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law in 2005. She is admitted in New York and Illinois.