The Reverend Monroe is an ordained minister, religion columnist, public theologian, and motivational speaker. As an African American feminist theologian, she speaks for a sector of society that is frequently invisible.

She currently serves as the coordinator of the African American Roundtable of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry (CLGS) at the Pacific School of Religion.

One of Rev. Monroe's outreach ministries to the public is the several queer religion columns she writes. Monroe writes “The Religion Thang,” for In Newsweekly, the largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender newspaper in the New England , “Faith Matters” for The Advocate Magazine, and “Queer Take,” for The Witness, a progressive Episcopalian journal. As a nationally renown African American lesbian activist, scholar/ and public theologian she writings have appeared in the Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, the Bay State Banner, Cambridge Chronicle. and Metro News. Her award-winning essay, “Louis Farrakhan's Ministry of Misogyny and Homophobia”, was greeted with critical acclaim.

Monroe states that her " columns are an interdisciplinary approach drawing on critical race theory, African American , queer and religious studies. As an religion columnist I try to inform the public of the role religion plays in discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people. Because homophobia is both a hatred of the "other " and it’s usually acted upon ‘in the name of religion,” by reporting religion in the news I aim to highlight how religious intolerance and fundamentalism not only shatters the goal of American democracy, but also aids in perpetuating other forms of oppression such as racism, sexism, classism and anti- Semitism.

As a motivational speaker Monroe gave the 2006 keynote at the Annual Bayard Rustiin Breakfast and was award the key to Cambridge, and the 2000 inaugural invocation “Cambridge 2000: A New Vision of Social Justice” at Cambridge City Hall celebrating Cambridge’s newlyelected City Council. Participating along with the City of Cambridge celebrating marriage equality at City Hall, on May 16, 2004 Monroe gave the invocation “On the Eve of the Freedom to Marry.” Monroe have also keynoted at A WORLD OF A DIFFERENCE Institute’s 5th Annual Congress sponsored by the Anti-Defamation league in Boston.

As an activist Monroe have received numerous awards for her continued commitment to the community. Monroe has received the Boston Certificate of Recognition for continued leadership and dedication to Boston’s Gay and Lesbian Community, and in 1998 Monroe was the first African American lesbian to be bestowed the honor of being grand marshall in the Boston Pride Celebration. In 1997 Boston Magazine cited Monroe as one of Boston’s 50 Most Intriguing Women, and was profiled twice in the Boston Globe, In the Living Arts and The Spiritual Life sections for her LGBT activism.

Monroe has also been profiled in the September 2001 issue of O, Oprah magazine. In 1998 in the national queer magazine Out Magazine Monroe was profiled in Out 100: The People Who Rocked 1998’s, and in June 1999 Monroe was profiled in the Gay Pride Episode of “In the Life TV” were the segment on me was nominated for an educational Emmy. And she just recently appeared on CNN’s Paula Zahn Now.

As a board member of the Cambridge Family YMCA, and an activist in the LGBT life of the City of Cambridge Monroe have received The Cambridge Peace and Justice Award. Monroe has received the Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching while being the head teaching fellow of the Rev. Peter Gomes, the Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church at Harvard who is the author of the best seller, THE GOOD BOOK. In 1990 Monroe received the Unitarian Universalist Feminist Theology Award Boston for her project of an African American queer community. Monroe just received a commendation from Cambridge Councilor Brain Murphy for receiving the 2004 Sistah Summit Gay Pride Spirituality Award. Monroe is a board member of the National BlackJustice Coalition, Equal Partners of Faith, one of the founders of the Religious Coaltion for the Freedom to Marry RCFM) and Christian Lesbians Out (CLOUT). And, Monroe is a commissioner on the GLBT Commission in Cambridge that attends to and addresses the needs of Cambridge’s queer community

A native of Brooklyn, NY, Monroe graduated from Wellesley College and Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University, and served as a pastor at an African American church in New Jersey.