Monique graduated from Texas A&M in May 2008 with a B.S. in Microbiology. She worked for a year as a research tech. in a gastrointestinal lab that worked on choloangiocarcinoma at Scott and White Hospital in Temple, Tx. She moved back to College Station to be with her husband and joined the GI lab in July 2009. She loves to cook, camp, hike, decorate, and spend time with her husband and two cats (Jaxx and Xana).