Mona has worked for 20+ years as a program practitioner in the domains of rural livelihoods promotion, microfinance, promotion of community-based organisations (SHGs, Cooperatives, Farmer and craft-based Producer Organisation) and NGOs. She has been/is Board Member of some reputed NGOs. The BASIX Social Enterprise Group, Swiss Development Cooperation, NDDB, and Sewa Mandir are the organisations where she has been employed; working mainly in the states of Madhya Pradesh, Chhatisgarh, Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, Gujarat and UP.
She is an experienced trainer and facilitator for development of community organisations, and youth leadership development. Mona has done consulting assignments with national and international agencies namely TRIFED, FICCI, Tata Trust, Central Tibetan Authority, RGICS, World Bank, UNDP and JICA. She has also ventured two years fulltime private practice as a biodiversity farmer-entrepreneur.
She is a postgraduate from the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) Gujarat. She is interested in Indian music, folk dances and reading.