HARVARD LAW TODAY — Monica Monroe’s penchant for advocacy began at a young age. The daughter of a white mother and Black father growing up outside Pittsburgh, PA in the 1970s, she vividly recalls a night out with her family when she was about seven years old. “I remember going out to dinner one night and noticing an entire family at a nearby table was just watching my family,” she recalls. “They were just staring. And I knew why they were staring.”