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Bianca Romero
Assistant Director of Student
Engagement and Residence Life,
Adjunct Professor, Bay Path University/
Cambridge College: Age 29
Bianca Romero’s title is a long one, and indeed, it
encompasses quite a few responsibilities, she said.
“But my biggest goal is always to help our students
feel like Bay Path and Cambridge are their home
away from home — to help them engage and find
themselves,” she explained. “Every day, I think
about how each student can change the world,
and what I can do to help them get closer to their
goals and bring their skills outside campus and
into the community.”
Romero’s work can be fun — hosting fun
events and promoting residential life — and less
so, when having tough conversations around crisis
response and student safety. She founded and scaled
up residence hall associations at both institutions,
led new student orientation strategy, implemented RA
and RD training programs, launched a graduate student
association, and much more.
“But the goal, every day, is to help students become
leaders,” she said, and that applies to her work as
an adjunct professor as well, teaching classes in legal
studies, business, and criminal justice. “I remember
being in their shoes, being nervous, having imposter
syndrome as a first-generation college student.
Whether it’s online or in person, I think about those moments
and ask myself, how can I connect with students no matter
where they are academically, financially, or emotionally?”
Early on, Romero took steps toward a career in law
enforcement, graduating with honors from the NYPD Cadet
Corps program aspiring to work in community policing, and
later shifted gears, enrolling at Bay Path for legal studies,
hoping to one day defend and advocate for people. But she
then became student government president and met Bay
Path’s then-president, Carol Leary, who mentored her.
“I never in my life thought about being a college
president until I met her,” Romero said, but that is,
indeed, her current long-range goal.
“As a child, I wanted to be a businesswoman,
a lawyer, in law enforcement, in community
building — but education holds all of those
things,” she explained.
“When you’re able to educate and give
opportunities to people who never thought
they’d have those opportunities, you are
changing the world,” she went on. “You’re
making the world a better place and building
communities. Now it’s not only you, but others
who can go out and use what you’re teaching
them to make the world a better, safer, happier
place, especially in the climate we’re in now.”
—Joseph Bednar
Congratulations
to the 40 under Forty Class of 2026
You are the best and brightest, leading the way
for our region
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s next generation of leaders.
Bay Path is especially proud to salute:
BIANCA ANNE ROMERO '18
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF STUDENT ENGAGEMENT AND RESIDENCE LIFE
BAY PATH UNIVERSITY
MARIANA R. DELOBATO G'13
FARM CREDIT FINANCIAL PARTNERS
YESELIE TULLOCH G'17
ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP ASSOCIATION
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