Monika Witte grew up in San Diego and attended UC San Diego, receiving a BA in mathematics. She moved to the San Francisco Bay Area after college, subsequently obtaining a master’s in civil engineering at UC Davis. Monika and her husband raised two sons in Danville. Monika spent the bulk of her career at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, first as a structural analyst and later an operations manager, retiring in 2015. Monika has been active in causes supporting education, including as a three-term trustee at The Athenian School, a five-year volunteer teaching assistant at Oak Grove Middle School, and currently a board member of the Danville-Alamo-Walnut Creek branch of AAUW. Monika is also an active volunteer with Contra Costa County Master Gardeners.