Maria Monroe is the associate director of digital strategy at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Prior to joining Equitable Growth, Maria was the editorial and operations coordinator at Orb Media, a non-profit journalism organization in Washington, D.C., and the multimedia editor at The Care Courses School, Inc., a distance-learning provider. Maria holds a master’s degree in journalism and mass communications from the University of Kansas and a bachelor’s degree in english from the University of Notre Dame.