Our Work

Through research, investigation, and analysis the Romero Institute seeks to identify structural sources of injustice and threats to the survival of our human family. By combining strategic litigation, legal consulting, and public education we aim to disassemble these unjust structures and mobilize a new generation of leaders committed to fairness and sustainability. We embrace work that ignites new ways of thinking and seeing, work that touches the deeper knowing in people and promotes a consciousness based on cooperation and unity rather than divisiveness and conflict.
Lakota People's Law Project

Lakota People's Law Project



We're working with the People of the Seven Council Fires—Oceti Sakowin Oyate—to win justice and renewal for the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota peoples....
UC Santa Cruz Course on Justice

UC Santa Cruz Course on Justice



Romero Institute President Daniel Sheehan taught an undergraduate university course in the spring of 2012 on the eight most important cases of his career....
Worldview Project

Worldview Project



The Worldview Project is a public interest effort to rigorously study and publish on the topic of human worldviews....
Ascension Sounds

Ascension Sounds



Ascension Sounds is a nonprofit music recording project that aims to provide Santa Cruz high school youth with the space, equipment, instruction, and opportunity to express themselves creatively through music....