Monique's prior professional and community service experience includes over four years in immigration law at Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Lowey, LLP, interning with the United States Senate Health, Education, Labor &Pension Committee, and Sunda School Union in Tamil Nadu, India, volunteering with Camp Kilpatrick, a male juvenile detention camp, and PepReach, a college-prep mentoring program for inner city high school students in Los Angeles county; and church pianist at Bethany Missionary Baptist Church in Oceanside, CA.
Since October 2012 Monique has served as the Program Coordinator for the Princeton YMCA's Y Scholars program, an extracurricular educational and team mentoring program which supports minority youth in the 5th - 12th grades. She is currently a Youth Minister at Union Baptist Church in Trenton, NJ and a Social Worker Intern at Princeton High School where she was awarded a Princeton Education Foundation teacher mini-grant for curriculum she developed for an afterschool girls group.
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This is wonderful and inspiring and it's great to have examples of women achieving!
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Thank you for reading our blog and encouraging us!
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