Monika is currently a research associate at the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare where her primary interest in the field of best practices within state-funded mental health centers. Previously, Monika worked as a research intern at the Fetzer Institute where her area of interest was in the field of psychoneuroimmunology. Monika has worked with multiple individuals to help collect and synthesize data, and shape it into a format which is easy-to-understand. This is one of the primary functions she has served at her current job as research associate at the University of Kansas since the mid-1990s.