Monroe was abandoned shortly after her birth and was discovered by a cleanup worker in a park trash can.
[1] She was raised in Brooklyn, New York and was educated as a Ford Foundation fellow at Wellesley College and the Union Theological Seminary at Columbia University.
[4][5][3] She formerly wrote the columns "The Religion Thang" for In Newsweekly, "Faith Matters" for The Advocate, and "Queer Take" for The Witness Magazine.
[6] She has additionally served on the Religious Advisory Committee of the Human Rights Campaign and as the commissioner of the Cambridge LGBTQ+ Commission.
[3] Monroe additionally led the vigil for murdered trans woman Rita Hester in 1998.