In his role as the leader of a national veterans’ civil rights group created to help protect Mexican Americans from discrimination, Lawrence Romo has a long history of fighting for diversity and inclusion. And now the Latinx civil rights leader will take his considerable skills and knowledge to Washington D.C. after recently being added to a commission that will soon begin working to remove Confederate names, monuments, and symbols from military bases and other government assets.
Romo currently serves as the national commander of the American GI Forum, a Congressionally chartered Hispanic veterans and civil rights organization founded in 1972 that focuses on issues related to veterans’ lives including education, outreach, and civil rights. In his new role on the bipartisan commission, Romo will help to decide which bases, monuments, and other military assets are potentially offensive or have problematic histories and need to be changed. He will then also help to put plans in place for those changes to occur.
