Monserrath Sanchez is the Regional Field Director for CNC Education Fund. In this role, she supports field campaigns, providing training, guidance, and resources to partner organizations to ensure the successful implementation of various programs and campaigns.

Born and raised in Fresno, California, as the daughter of Mexican farmworker immigrants, Monserrath grew up in forgotten and unfinished neighborhoods. From a very young age, she learned to advocate for herself and her parents. In grade school, she remembers passing out Know Your Rights pamphlets to her parents' coworkers during breaks or on her way to the nearest water station. While in college, she played a key role in helping her family successfully organize against one of Fresno's biggest slumlords, withholding rent until their home was brought into habitable condition. These early experiences have given her a profound understanding of the inequities many Central Valley families face.

Before joining CNC, she was a community organizer at Faith in the Valley, where she worked alongside people of faith, college students, and Fresnans fighting for housing justice. She focused on exploring alternative housing solutions such as community ownership and social housing. Monserrath was part of the organizing team that relaunched the Fresno Tenants Union, and one of her most fulfilling duties was helping families navigate the Eviction Protection Program application process.

Monserrath's academic journey at California State University, Fresno, where she double majored in Political Science and Sociology, was a formative experience. It was during her time at Fresno State that she began to recognize the systems designed to limit opportunities for people of the global majority. This realization fueled her commitment to disrupting these systems of oppression that have exploited and excluded her family and neighbors.