Katherine Romero is a Colombian attorney working for sexual and reproductive rights for women throughout the Americas and in Africa.
She worked on amendments to the laws of Colombia to make abortion legal for cases of rape or in the event that continuance of a pregnancy would endanger the life of the mother or child.
Katherine Romero Cristancho attained dual degrees in law and political science from the University of the Andes in Bogotá, Colombia and went on to earn a master's degree in Human Rights Protection from the University of Alcala de Henares near Madrid, Spain.
[2] In 2005, she was hired as a legal intern with Women’s Link Worldwide for the project to challenge the abortion law of Colombia.
[5] Romero's specialty is sexual and reproductive rights and she has directed litigation regionally, nationally and internationally, including cases in Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia,[1] Nicaragua,[6] Peru and Uganda.