Monica Allaby

Monica Allaby is a communications professional dedicated to supporting vibrant communities and healthy ecosystems through authentic and impactful storytelling. She finds purpose in using creative communications techniques to foster social solidarity and change hearts and minds about pressing social, economic, and environmental issues. Based in Mi’kma’ki, the unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq, she currently works as a senior communications specialist at MakeWay, a national charity and public foundation that builds partnerships and solutions to help nature and communities thrive together. She has previously held communications roles at Community Forests International and the McGill Office of Sustainability. Allaby holds a degree in geography from McGill University and a master’s of science in environmental management from the University of New Brunswick.

Allaby regularly turns to The Philanthropist Journal for her own professional development. She appreciates how the Journal sparks critical conversations about philanthropy’s role in addressing social issues and hopes her perspective will be valuable to it. Allaby hopes that the Journal will continue to provide fair and compassionate coverage of the non-profit sector and advocate for better working conditions for non-profit employees. She would like to see it continue to generate thoughtful and rigorous long-form journalism – something she feels is especially important in our increasingly bite-sized digital world – while creating engaging visual content for digital spaces.