Martha Romero
“When I joined KidSingers, I did not expect for it to impact my life as greatly as it did. This program has given me confidence and inner strength to take leadership positions in my school and other extracurricular activities, but most of all it has given me the confidence to dream big.”
Martha is now enrolled in the historic black college and medical school in Southeast Los Angeles, Charles R. Drew University (CDU) of Medicine and Science. Along with sixty other medical students, she was selected out of 1,000 applicants to receive medical training to serve communities where underinvestment has led to health inequities.
Martha has credited KidSingers “for helping me form good habits and keep my focus on academics. KidSingers has taught me that with hard work, anything is possible. This lesson is one I have carried with me throughout my academic years and applied it to my ultimate goal of becoming a medical doctor. Just as KidSingers has helped, and in some ways healed, the community, I wish to accomplish the same in my career as a medical doctor.”
KidSingers is proud that Martha, along with so many other KidSinger grads, are living the values of love, respect, care, and concern, that this program continues to inculcate in the lives of all our kids. Truly they are creating, as the KidSinger motto says, Harmony for a Better World.
Martha was in the program for six years and was always an amazing KidSinger, who truly incorporated the life-changing values of KS. After she graduated from high school and KidSingers in 2014, she took the scholarship money she earned in KidSingers and went on to UCLA where she graduated in 2018 with a Bachelors in Science in Biology and a minor in Latinx studies. When COVID hit in 2020, Martha immersed herself in her home community of Santa Ana, where she worked as a medical assistant at a local clinic and also worked as a youth coordinator for a science academy that taught STEM activities to students in Santa Ana.