With over 20 years of experience in the social sector, I have dedicated my career to helping mission-driven organizations navigate complex changes and achieve meaningful improvements. From 2010-2020, Monique focused her business on a broad range of sectors, including reproductive justice, immigrant rights, domestic violence, gender justice, health equity and worker rights. From 2018-2020, she served as the project director for the Lead Local Initiative for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Prior to that engagement, she worked with the California Criminal Justice Funders Group, Safe Return Project, ReThink Media, East Bay Sanctuary Covenant, LIVE FREE Campaign/Faith in Action, and other nonprofit groups. As a consultant, Monique also spent four years helping to establish the LIFT Fund as a collaborative fund at the Solidago Foundation. She also worked with the National Guestworker Alliance, CoreAlign, the New Orleans Worker Center for Racial Justice, UCLA Labor Center, Open Society Institute, and the National Domestic Workers Alliance.
For the past 5 years, she led Arabella Advisor’s ChangeWorks service, which includes organizational design and development, operational planning, change management, and implementation strategies for a variety of philanthropic and nonprofit initiatives and vehicles. Monique worked across the spectrum of Arabella’s individual, institutional, and corporate clients, drawing upon her more than 20 years of experience managing, building, and advising nonprofits and foundations. Her clients included Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies, Irving Harris Foundation, General Service Foundation, and many others. In addition, she wrote a white paper about the life cycle of fiscal sponsorship.
In addition to her consulting work, Monique was a program officer supporting national racial justice movement-building with the Akonadi Foundation and spent four transformative years as the executive director of the Third Wave Foundation.
Monique was the recipient of the New Voices Fellowship in 2000, when she served as the development director for Sakhi for South Asian Women. During her tenure at Third Wave, Monique sat on the boards of directors of the Funders Collaborative on Youth Organizing, Resource Generation, and the Funders Network on Population, Reproductive Health & Rights.
Monique holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Colgate University and a law degree from Brooklyn Law School.
For the past 5 years, she led Arabella Advisor’s ChangeWorks service, which includes organizational design and development, operational planning, change management, and implementation strategies for a variety of philanthropic and nonprofit initiatives and vehicles. Monique worked across the spectrum of Arabella’s individual, institutional, and corporate clients, drawing upon her more than 20 years of experience managing, building, and advising nonprofits and foundations. Her clients included Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies, Irving Harris Foundation, General Service Foundation, and many others. In addition, she wrote a white paper about the life cycle of fiscal sponsorship.
In addition to her consulting work, Monique was a program officer supporting national racial justice movement-building with the Akonadi Foundation and spent four transformative years as the executive director of the Third Wave Foundation.
Monique was the recipient of the New Voices Fellowship in 2000, when she served as the development director for Sakhi for South Asian Women. During her tenure at Third Wave, Monique sat on the boards of directors of the Funders Collaborative on Youth Organizing, Resource Generation, and the Funders Network on Population, Reproductive Health & Rights.
Monique holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Colgate University and a law degree from Brooklyn Law School.