Angela Romero

Angela Romero is the House Minority Leader of the Utah House of Representatives, representing District 25 since 2013. Born and raised in Tooele, Utah by her grandparents who moved from New Mexico, she identifies as both Chicana and Assiniboine (Native American). She leads the first all-female House minority leadership team in Utah history. A fierce advocate for victim's rights, she successfully passed the Prison Rape Elimination Act, secured $3.6 million for Utah's Statewide Sexual Assault Prevention Program, and created the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Relatives Task Force.

Born and raised in Tooele, Utah. Raised by her grandparents who moved to Tooele from Gallina, northern New Mexico, where the family had been for 16 generations predating the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Her grandfathers came to build Army Depot tanks. Her father is American Indian (Assiniboine) with family in Montana. Grew up in a neighborhood called "Tortilla Flats" where the Catholic Church served as the community social center. Her grandmother, despite only having an eighth-grade education, prepared her for facing discrimination and taught her to stand up for herself and others. First in family to graduate college.