Dr. Monique Liston Liston

About Dr. Monique Liston Liston

What happens when Black identity—particularly the lives of Black women, girls, and femmes—is loved, protected, and defended as we collectively learn about process and change in organizations and programs? This is the question Dr. Monique Liston has built a community-engaged, intellectual, and regenerative life practice around. She is the Founder, Chief Strategist, and Joyful Militant of UBUNTU Research and Evaluation, an undisciplined learning organization and recipient of the Milwaukee Business Journal’s Diversity in Business Award. She also serves as Executive Director of The Leadership Undercommons, advancing dignity-centered learning and leadership rooted in the lived realities of Black women, girls, and femmes.

A sought-after facilitator, speaker, evaluator, collaborator, and good-time haver, Dr. Liston went to school for many years and is most proud to be an alum of Howard University. Her honors include 2025 Milwaukee Business Journal 40 Under 40, Public Allies’ first and only honorary alum, and HBCU Alumni United Milwaukee Alumni of the Year. Though not a self-identified poet, she published FRACTALS in 2025.