Stephanie Monroe
Vice President and Senior Advisor, Health Equity
STEPHANIE J. MONROE, JD is Vice President and Senior Advisor of Health Equity for UsAgainstAlzheimer’s, a national advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C. She was the founding director of AfricanAmericansAgainstAlzheimer’s which was the first national network created specifically to respond to Alzheimer’s disease’s disparate impact on African Americans. By working nationally, locally, and through strategic partnerships, Ms. Monroe works to raise awareness of the impact of Alzheimer’s health disparities on communities of color and women, the need for greater minority participation in clinical trials to find better treatments, diagnostics and hopefully a cure, and the importance of all communities, especially those most at risk to begin to focus on brain health and adopt risk reduction strategies that promote brain health across the lifespan.
An attorney with three decades of federal public policy experience. Stephanie is a former Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education. Prior to serving in that position, she ended a 25-year career on Capitol Hill after holding several key staff positions in the United States Congress, including Chief Counsel of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, as well as Staff Director of the Senate Subcommittee on Children and Families. Stephanie serves on several Boards of Directors as well as an advisor to numerous academic centers, industry partners, federal agencies, and others on issues to ensure full equal opportunity to participate in and benefit from all that America has to offer.
Bucket list item: Visit and eat through Italy
Favorite book: "The Bible"
Stephanie's Articles:
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.