Becky Monroe
Former Deputy Director, California vs. Hate Resource Line and Network
2024
Becky L. Monroe is currently working with Stacey Abrams’ American Pride Rises, an initiative fighting for a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive America for all. Until August, Monroe was a Deputy Director for the California Civil Rights Department (CRD) CRD, Monroe worked for the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the Associate Attorney General, as a Consultant – Senior Advisor. Before this consultancy, Becky was the Senior Director of the Fighting Hate and Bias Program at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. She was Director and Distinguished Practitioner in Residence for the Divided Community Project at the Ohio State University College of Law from 2019 to 2020. She was Director of the Stop Hate Project at The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law from 2017 to 2018. A part of the Obama Administration, she was Director of Policy and Strategy and Senior Counselor to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice from 2012 to 2017. Monroe was on detail from the U.S. Department of Justice as Senior Policy Advisor for The White House Domestic Policy Council on civil rights issues from 2014 to 2015. She was Acting Director and Senior Counsel for the Community Relations Service at the U.S. Department of Justice from 2009 to 2012. Becky was Policy Counsel at the Constitution Project from 2008 to 2009 and Latino/a Outreach Volunteer for the Promote the Vote Program at Obama for America from 2007 to 2008. Before joining the Obama campaign, Monroe was the Director of the Employment Rights Project at Bet Tzedek Legal Services in Los Angeles, representing low wage immigrant workers and women trafficked for labor. She earned a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School and was a law clerk to the Honorable Richard A. Paez, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
This cannot be thought of as a conference or a summit. The stakes are simply too high and the data/conversation and methods to drive action more valuable/motivating than any gathering I have attended. I took more than 100 pages of notes and have shared them with my CBS News leadership team, anchors, producers, and correspondents. Nothing about this gathering was easy. The agony around this topic is real. But no one curious about it could ask for a more devoted, rational, or unflinching look into this dark but decipherable world.
