Monica Schreiber

Co-VP - Albi, France; VP- Enschede, Netherlands; Communications Chair

Monica Schreiber's long connection to the Palo Alto community began in the early 1990s when she was a reporter at the region’s former daily newspaper, the Peninsula Times Tribune. She later worked as the Arts & Entertainment Editor at the Palo Alto Weekly before putting herself through law school at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. After practicing media and intellectual property law for several years in San Francisco, Monica transitioned to a career in legal marketing, spending two decades with international law firms in Silicon Valley, where she worked closely with the partners on a wide variety of communications and business development initiatives. Since 2022, Monica has been a member of the Communications and Media Relations team at Stanford Law School.  
 
Monica has long had a passion for learning about other countries and cultures thanks, in part, to having been raised by a German mother and to her participation in a formative AFS exchange program in Brazil when she was a teen. In the mid-1990s, she was selected by the French-American Foundation for a journalism fellowship in France, where she was a visiting reporter at Sud Ouest Dimanche in Bordeaux. During law school, Monica spent a semester studying E.U. and U.S. law at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. She speaks decent French.

Among her projects for Neighbors Abroad, she co-led a group of teens to Palo Alto's Dutch Sister City, Enschede, during the summer of 2023 for a week of education and activities relating to a Dutch hero of World War II. She was honored to coordinate the visit of a delegation from Albi in late 2023. 
 
Monica and her husband Matt are proud parents of two college-age daughters, a husky (rescue dog, of course!), and the occasional foster dog from the Peninsula Humane Society.

You can contact Monica at [email protected]