Monique Fitzgerald Biography
Monique Fitzgerald is a justice seeker, a community advocate and organizer. She has been working in her community for two decades. Focusing on mutual aid efforts, know your rights, community resource distribution, food sovereignty, environmental and climate justice. She was born and raised in North Bellport and is a Black and an indigenous person of occupied Long Island. Monique attended St Joseph’s College and obtained her bachelors degree in Community Health and Human Services in 2012. She then went on and obtained her Master’s degree at Stony Brook University School of Social Welfare. Her lived experiences and education put her on a path to work with great organizations and co-creating groups that are aligned with her values such as the Brookhaven Landfill Action and Remediation Group a grassroots intergenerational environmental justice group. She believes in the attainment of justice and liberation. Click here to view the Press Release.
