Monika Jefferson

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Moni Jefferson is an innovator committed to social impact. Moreover, she is an active duty Air Force spouse and accomplished multi-venture entrepreneur specializing in public relations, marketing strategy, business development, and community building.

Moni is known for her role in advocating for military spouse entrepreneurs and international speakers across local and national venues. Since 2014, Moni has helped build and scale multiple military spouse programs. Moni has even been invited to the White House and featured in Military Spouse magazine on the Nasdaq Tower in Time Square, Inc, and Forbes Next 1000 entrepreneurs for her work.

Her most recent venture as the CEO and Founder of The Association of Military Spouse Entrepreneurs (AMSE) since 2019 has helped over 10k + military spouses all around the globe to start, scale, and sustain their businesses. AMSE is the first fully digital military spouse entrepreneur program and platform with education, community, digital master classes, resources, national partners, and more. It was built by military spouse entrepreneurs for military spouse entrepreneurs. AMSE was inducted into the DOD’s Military Spouse Employment Partnership (MSEP) in its first year for its work and impact on the military spouse community.

Moni is also known for working in the tech space, creating and raising capital for her three Military lifestyle apps; MilCam, MilEmoji, and My Ultimate PCS. She holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke in Communications and Public Relations and is a member of Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority Inc.

Moni has been married for 25 years, has three children, and lives on the East Coast. She loves traveling and is dangerously addicted to nachos. In her downtime, she enjoys teaching her children how to cook traditional Puerto Rican meals and diving into a good crime podcast.