An author, education consultant, strategist, and appointee to the White House Commission of Educational Excellence for Hispanics, Monica has worked for decades with nonprofits, foundations, and education systems across the K-16 sector. Her career encompasses major programmatic, management, and executive leadership roles and is marked both by her vast knowledge of secondary reform and college readiness and hands-on experience managing and supporting major foundation initiatives. As an education strategist, Monica has served in an advisory capacity to leaders’ of multiple organizations, including non-profits, state systems, and foundations to assist in creating, revising, or implementing their education initiatives. Her clients have included The Carnegie Corporation, The Community College of Philadelphia, The Harold K.L. Castle Foundation, the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Her book, Deeper Learning: How Eight Innovative Public Schools Are Transforming Education in the Twenty-First Century, published by The New Press, was released June, 2014. Prior to becoming an independent consultant, Monica served as the President of the New Tech Network and the Vice President for Education Strategy at KnowledgeWorks. In Washington, DC, she was a senior associate at the Institute for Educational Leadership where she founded the Washington, D.C.-based National High School Alliance while developing and managing three other projects. Monica has been a columnist for Phi Delta Kappan and has been a contributing author to other books and independent reports. Monica is an international and national speaker on the topics of deeper learning, education innovation and reform, college readiness, and the future of learning.
