Carla S. Romero has lived in Las Vegas since 1969. She grew up on a ranch on the Harding/Mora County line, 18 miles east of Wagon Mound. She has a BA in Accounting & Computer Science as well as an MBA from NMHU. After 25 years of teaching business and technology classes, she retired from Luna Community College as the Director of the Business and Professional Studies Department. Carla continued as an instructor of Developmental Mathematics at NMHU for 10 years and Business classes for 6 years.  Working with the youth of the community is her passion. She has helped coordinate AAUW ‘Girls Can’ events for seven years and after school and summer programs through Project GUTS (Growing Up Thinking Scientifically) for middle school students. Presently, she is on the Board for the Luna Community Foundation, Treasurer of the Las Vegas New Mexico Community Foundation, and member of AAUW. She and her husband Peter are the proud parents of four children: and eight grandchildren.