Monica Lindsey’s passion is working with students with learning differences, and she is a highly qualified English and Special Education teacher with AACPS. She also holds certifications in Reading and Pupil Personnel Work. She is a member of the AACPS Joint Commission on Eliminating the Achievement Gap, co-chair of Connecting the Dots, a grassroots racial justice organization that she helped found in 2017, and recipient of the Fannie Lou Hamer Award from the Martin Luther King Jr. Committee of Anne Arundel County, Maryland; the Alan Hillard Legum Award; and the MSEA Human Civil Rights Award.