Research Interests and Expertise

They have spent the last 10 years as a DEI professional as both a consultant, and career staff in higher education and corporate. Their approach rests on the belief that dismantling oppressive systems requires individuals to commit to a personal journey in self-awareness in order to understand the role we must play in our collective liberation. Monae sees DEI is deeply personal and interpersonal work. The personal aspect often makes it difficult to address DEI issues in a work/education context since we are taught to separate the personal from our career-facing persona. However, if we are able to understand the unavoidable, interdependent nature of DEI we can begin to disentangle ourselves from the web of oppression and dominance.