Mónica Estefanía Palacios Zambrano is an Ecuadorian politician who was elected to Ecuador's National Assembly for the Citizen Revolution Movement in 2021.

Mónica Palacios holds a bachelor of arts in economics, political science and history from Queens College, City University of New York.

[2] In November 2021, she was one of the eighty-one members of the Assembly who abstained during the vote for the Economic Reform Bill which would have brought in changes to the tax system.

Forty-six other members signed the request including Sofía Espín, Jhajaira Urresta, Patricia Mendoza, Victoria Desintonio, Viviana Veloz and Rosa Mayorga.

The other members were Andrea Rivadeneira, Amy Gende, Patricia Núñez, Eduardo Mendoza, Viviana Zambrano and Roberto Cuero.