Courtney Monk has focused her career on improving educational outcomes and opportunities for students from all backgrounds. She is currently a data scientist at Chegg, an education technology company that helps students succeed academically and professionally. Prior to joining Chegg, Courtney ...
Read moreCourtney Monk has focused her career on improving educational outcomes and opportunities for students from all backgrounds. She is currently a data scientist at Chegg, an education technology company that helps students succeed academically and professionally. Prior to joining Chegg, Courtney spent nearly six years working at Teach For America, a non-profit organization whose mission is for all children to have access to an excellent education. Her work played a key role in admitting Teach For America’s most diverse corps members in history in 2014 and 2015.
Courtney received her Doctorate in Economics from the University of Oxford. While at Oxford, she studied relationships between health, education, and employment outcomes. Courtney also holds a Master’s degree in International Economics from the Université de Paris I – Pantheon Sorbonne, and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Princeton University.
Courtney was elected to the Los Gatos Union School Board in 2018. She also serves on Breakthrough Silicon Valley’s Board of Directors, iMentor’s Bay Area Advisory Board, and the Chegg For Good Foundation Board.