Monica is Assistant Solicitor General at the Colorado Attorney General's Office. Monica grew up in Grand Junction and graduated from Stanford University in 1991. After college, she served in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps as an inner-city school teacher and community organizer in Camden, NJ, and Philadelphia, PA. She graduated from Yale Law in 1997, clerked for two federal judges and then joined Holme Roberts & Owen, LLP in 1999 as a litigation associate. She moved to the Attorney General’s Office in 2002, and currently handles trial and appellate litigation for Colorado's statewide elected officials, including the Governor, Treasurer, Secretary of State, and the Attorney General. Monica has served on the Board of the Colorado Hispanic Bar Association since 2001, and served as President of the Colorado GLBT Bar Association in 2005. She continues to volunteer her time with the GLBT Bar assisting with website, listserv, and other matters. Monica played trumpet for many years in the mariachi Coro Guadalupano at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Northwest Denver, but recently became the new brass section of the Dead Sinatras (Denver's Premiere Lesbian Retro Band). She lives with her partner and two labradors in Stapleton.