Lourdes Romo, a family advocate at West Marin School who has devoted herself to a host of local organizations, was recently named the new executive director of Papermill Creek Children’s Corner. The preschool, which currently serves roughly 15 or 20 students, has struggled in recent years to retain a director. But Ms. Romo says she is dedicated to her new position at Papermill, where she has served as a board member in the past and where she sent her own children, over a decade and a half ago. “I saw how well it works when there’s stability, when there’s one person there for the long run and, on the other side, how harmful instability can be,” she said. “I plan to be there for the long run.” In the past, the executive director also has served as the head teacher, but Ms. Lourdes will work full time solely as the director of the preschool, where she hopes to boost the number of Latino children and kickstart a scholarship program for low-income families. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, a Head Start program stationed at the preschool is roughly half Latino, Ms. Romo said, but the rest of the week just a couple Latino students come to play and learn. “I think a lot more outreach to the Latino community can be done,” she said. “That’s one of my focuses: outreach, so we can have diverse attendance.” A scholarship program, she continued, is also key to her agenda. Papermill offers sliding-scale fees, but even that does not always suffice. “Because of my job,” she said, “I see a lot of families inquiring about the preschool. Once we figure out the monthly cost, it’s heartbreaking when they are faced with the reality they can’t afford it.” Ms. Romo’s previous jobs in social services and for outreach programs have prepared her well for leading the preschool. At West Marin School, where she has been a family advocate for about five years, Ms. Romo helped parents navigate the school system and apprised them of their rights, connected them to legal and medical resources and acted as a liaison of sorts to summer camps. “You name it and I’ll try to do it,” she said of the job, which she is continuing part time until the end of the school year. Ms. Romo is also a board member of West Marin Senior Services, and participates in the West Marin Collaborative and the Marin Childcare Council, among other groups. She’s learned that in unincorporated West Marin, “It’s really beneficial to be involved in a lot of things, because resources come in different ways. I keep myself updated on resources that I might not be aware of.”