Jennie Stephens-Romero received her Bachelor of Arts degree in history from University of Pennsylvania and her Juris Doctor from University of California Hastings College of the Law.
While in law school, Jennie particularly enjoyed doing human rights research with Hastings’ Refugee and Human Rights Clinic. With the clinic, she traveled to Guatemala to document violence against women there. Jennie also researched violence against women as an intern at Centro de la Mujer Peruana Flora Tristán in Lima, Peru, and assisted women in obtaining restraining orders at the Family Violence Law Center in Oakland, California. Additionally, Jennie has worked on issues of discrimination against women at Equal Rights Advocates in San Francisco, and she published an article on family leave legislation in the journal California Legal History. Most recently, Jennie advocated for education equity and worked with asylum applicants at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights in San Francisco.
In her spare time, Jennie enjoys cycling and traveling, sometimes simultaneously. She also likes to cook.