Monica Grajales  

Monica Grajales is a feminist and has been a sex educator for almost a decade. She possesses a M.A. in Social Psychology from SFSU. However, she began her career in sex education volunteering as counselor for sexual assault victims and legal advocate/court translator for battered women. She trained with San Francisco Sex Information and worked as SFSI's Chair of Continuing Education for 2 years. Monica is a former participant of the 2003 NSRC's Summer Institute and became certified as HIV Educator and Outreach Worker through City College of San Francisco.

Her experience as sex educator includes working as a full-time health teacher, working for Planned Parenthood in San Francisco and MA and currently working for Girls Inc of Alameda County. Throughout the years, Monica has enjoyed working with a wide variety of audiences from children and teens to college students and adults, all genders and sexual orientations and many ethnicities. She has trained community health educators and has been invited to train professional staff at other organizations in all areas of sexuality. One of her most memorable and life-transforming experiences was working in New Delhi, India while developing a peer health education program on STD/HIV and pregnancy prevention for disenfranchised women that was culturally-appropriate based on needs assessment and the limited local resources available to them.

On her free time, Monica enjoys listening to hard rock, eating dark chocolate, reading vampire novels, making jewelry and studying the Tarot.