Monique (she/her) is a firm believer in the power of community. She is a Special Initiative Outreach Worker for Project Home, working closely with the Opioid Epidemic Community in Kensington, and is in recovery. Originally from Rhode Island, Monique loves being outdoors in all seasons. She is an Indigenous woman, a caregiver, and formerly incarcerated. Through the Change the Narrative Fellowship, she wants to speak out against the spiraling and interconnected economic pressures of incarceration: job insecurity on top of mounting court fees, housing insecurity, and stigma around addiction.
WOMEN’S WAY is the Greater Philadelphia region’s leading nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of women, girls, and gender and racial equity.
***When we refer to women, we mean cis and trans women and femme-identified people (which includes anyone who is not a cis or trans woman but who identifies as feminine), and also those who identify as gender-expansive, nonbinary, and/or gender-nonconforming.
