Selected Works
Collectrify: A Frontline Energy Fund (National)
Guided strategic planning to support the evolution and growth of an intermediary fund.
Facilitated strategy sessions, grantee retreats, action work groups, and governance assembly meetings. Worked closely with grantees, allied partners, and internal staff to design and facilitate discussions and decisions across all levels of the organization. Co-created governance processes, grantmaking principles, communications strategies, and internal infrastructure during a critical scale-up phase.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Learning Collaborative (National)
Facilitated strategic alignment, governance design, and action planning across 17 national science institutions.
Guided a cohort of 17 equity-focused institutions through shared goal-setting, structured decision-making, and the development of self-sustaining implementation plans. Led annual evaluation and adaptation processes to support ongoing learning and progress.
Nutrition Oregon Campaign,
Oregon Health and Sciences University (OR)
Directed a statewide network focused on ending diet-related chronic disease through systems-level interventions.
Facilitated regional hubs to co-create strategies, partnerships, and aligned actions. Held the big picture while supporting implementation of local priorities through collaborative planning and shared learning.
Latinx HIV/AIDS Statewide Collaborative, Familias en Acción (OR)
Developed the strategy and structure for a community-rooted learning collaborative to end HIV/AIDS in Oregon.
Helped set the vision, align stakeholders, and prepare the groundwork for sustained action focused on Latinx communities. Integrated systems thinking, community expertise, and implementation design.
Tri‑County Equitable Housing Strategy to Expand Permanent Supportive Housing for People Experiencing Chronic Homelessness, Corporation for Supportive Housing
Facilitated multi-agency collaboration to address chronic homelessness through permanent supportive housing.
Built alignment across housing, healthcare, and community service systems. Engaged individuals with lived experience to co-create a regional plan that responded to the scale of need in the Portland metro area.
Washington County ACEs
Collaborative (OR)
Launched a county-wide network to reduce childhood trauma and build community resilience.
Facilitated the design of collaborative structures, initiative teams, and shared strategies. Held space for healing-informed dialogue across sectors including public health, education, and early childhood.
Caribbean Corporate Investment for Resilience, Global Knowlege Initiative (Eastern Caribbean)
Helped establish a regional coalition to accelerate climate resilience investment.
Engaged public and private stakeholders from multiple island nations to co-create governance structures and early priorities. Supported strategy development for long-term collaboration.
Farm to Farmer Program, Washington Farmland Trust (WA)
Designed an expansion strategy to scale a farmland access program statewide.
Conducted outreach and engagement to inform a locally grounded business model. Synthesized stakeholder input into an operational plan to support beginning farmers and land transitions.
TESTIMONIALS
“Monica is an absolute gem! She’s smart, skilled and strategic. Monica supported overall strategy development and brought a participatory approach that cultivated real, authentic relationships with partners. Monica worked tirelessly to develop work plans, community needs assessments, evaluation frameworks, communication strategies and so much more. She’s a brilliant systems thinker and I would highly recommend her for future projects.”
- Lauren MacBeth, Director of Development, Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare
TESTIMONIALS
“I've had the pleasure of working with Monica twice. We so valued her approach, we were eager to work with her again. Monica and her team led a strategic growth and business planning process to scale our program from serving three counties to serving all of Washington state. I loved that her team asked clarifying, thoughtful questions that caused us to dig deep and dream big while charting a realistic path to where we wanted to go. She prioritized community input and is a great collaborator, communicator, and facilitator.¨
- Megan Jenny, Community Partnerships Director, Washington Farmland Trust
TESTIMONIALS
“Monica conceived an elegant and powerful equity framework superbly aligned with our agency’s equity strategy and the study’s content. This was no small task as the work focused on the complex global problem of inequitable health impacts from toxic chemicals in consumer products. She brought a strong systems thinking approach to the project which included stakeholder interviews, secondary research and recommended opportunities for action. Monica is sharp, intuitive, reliable, collaborative and deeply caring - a true pleasure to work with!”
- Carl Lawrence Grimm Metro Resource Conservation and Recycling senior planner
TESTIMONIALS
"Your communication and leadership has made it possible for me to be involved. You are a remarkable, talented facilitator. You facilitate the sharing of the work in a way that creates success. That is not my experience with other projects."
- Kelly Poe, Director of Early Learning, Malheur Education District
TESTIMONIALS
¨I had the pleasure to work with Monica on a complex, multi-sectoral initiative. Monica’s thoughtful and collaborative spirit resulted in unified strategic plans and tangible results. She brought clarity and vision with her strong communication and project management skills and used her strengths in facilitating collaborative problem solving to ensure our work was reflective of client and community needs. I highly recommend her!¨
- Emily Bower, Executive Director, City of Gresham, Gresham Redevelopment Commission
TESTIMONIALS
"I have worked with Monica regularly for nearly a decade. I’m continually impressed by her ability to facilitate meaningful discussions in groups small and large, across settings both professional and casual, and with audiences from diverse backgrounds. She guides stakeholders toward aligned goals with ease, all while grounding work in a systems change perspective."
- Liana Haywood, Senior Communications Manager, Moore Institute for Nutrition and Wellness,
Oregon Health and Sciences University
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