2020
XIOMARA
ROMAIN
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
LIFT-NEW YORK
Xiomara Romain has been serving as the proud Executive Director of LIFT-New York. Prior
to joining LIFT, Romain served as the Director of Fund Development for Mentor New York, a
local affiliate of MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership, an organization that recruits
mentors for youth in high need communities. She led the organization’s special event
fundraising, board engagement strategies, and individual and major gift programs. She
worked as the Director of Resource Development at the Center for Community Alternatives, a
nonprofit that serves people in trouble.
Earlier in her career, she held senior leadership positions with the YMCA of Greater New
York and worked for the Vera Institute of Justice. There, she developed new programs and
conducted program evaluations for several juvenile justice reform demonstration projects
after beginning her career as a New York City public school teacher in Brooklyn. Romain also
founded 4Impact, a change management, fundraising and leadership consulting collective
that helps executives and boards raise more money.
Romain graduated with an MA from the CUNY Graduate Center at Brooklyn College, a BA
from Morgan State University in Maryland and has been working on her 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”.
Romain has been serving as an adjunct professor at Stony Brook in the Health and Sciences
Department and a board member of Bridge Street Development Corporation. She is married
and has two children.
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