22 Facts About Chris Romer

Chris Romer was born on 1959 and is a former American politician from the US state of Colorado.

On November 30,2010, Chris Romer announced his candidacy for Mayor of Denver.

Chris Romer then resigned from the state senate, and, after qualifying for the runoff election, lost the race to Michael Hancock.

Chris Romer has helped to build several public-private mission-driven B-Corp companies, including Guild Education and Project Canary.

Chris Romer has worked as a public finance banker with JPMorgan Chase, working on public projects including the Denver International Airport, Children's Hospital, the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, National Jewish Medical and Research Center and FasTracks.

In late 2008, Chris Romer left his position at JPMorgan Chase to work with the Knowledge is Power Program, a Denver network of charter schools.

Chris Romer was named the group's president in December 2008.

At the age of 28, Chris Romer founded the Colorado I Have a Dream Foundation, a non-profit providing mentoring and scholarships to at-risk children; he has served as its president.

Chris Romer has chaired the Colorado Children's Campaign and served on the boards of the Denver School of Science and Technology, the Metropolitan State College of Denver Foundation, and Open World Learning, as well as Denver's New America Schools, where he spent two years as a volunteer superintendent.

Chris Romer was a founder and president of Great Education Colorado which advocates for improved funding of Colorado schools and promotes education reform; in 2006, the group proposed an increase in severance taxes provide funding for public schools, but the measure was never placed on the statewide ballot.

Chris Romer was a leader behind Colorado's Amendment 23, a ballot measure approved by voters in 2000 which guarantees state funding levels for Colorado public schools, and a member of the Colorado Supreme Court Nominating Commission.

In 2019, Chris Romer founded Project Canary a public benefit corporation working to change the course of climate change by cutting methane emissions and providing engineering-based certifications and high-fidelity continuous monitoring.

Chris Romer emphasized his financial and budgetary expertise in the contest, ultimately prevailing over both opponents in the historically Democratic district.

Chris Romer supported her brief appointment as a state senator and was sworn in himself on January 10,2007.

One of Chris Romer's daughters is Rachel Chris Romer Carlson, the founder and CEO of Guild Education.

Chris Romer introduced a measure to require that Colorado high school students demonstrate English competency as a requirement for graduation.

Chris Romer joined Republicans in supporting a measure to enact statewide science and math standards, and introduced a measure that created a pilot dual enrollment program for Colorado students.

Chris Romer then offered his support to a competing proposal to charge $5 tolls along I-70, which ultimately died for lack of support.

Chris Romer planned on sponsoring legislation to educate consumers on scams, to create statewide high school graduation standards, to allow homeowners to collect rainwater for irrigation, and to eliminate CSAP testing for high school students.

Chris Romer was the senate sponsor of a proposal to increase severance taxes to provide additional funding for higher education, and sponsored a successful bill creating the Colorado Clean Energy Finance Program to provide below-market rate loans to homeowners for energy efficiency projects.

Chris Romer floated a proposal to alter the inflation formula used to allocate money to education under Colorado's Amendment 23, in order to increase the legislature's flexibility in allocating funds.

Chris Romer introduced legislation changing taxi cab regulations, attempting to increase competition by shifting burden of proof onto parties opposing new cabs.