After living in Haliburton County for over 20 years while working in Toronto, Monika Turner and her husband moved to Cobourg to be closer to family and to put down roots in the community once again.  Her family lived here in the late 1970s and owned a business.  Monika has a public policy consulting and facilitation business, “Roving Capacity”.  Her areas of public policy expertise include: public health, paramedicine, housing, health issues, municipal matters, emergency management, and Indigenous relations.

Monika was the Director of Policy for the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) from 2010 to 2022.  She joined AMO in 2010 after 25 years with the Ontario Government first as a political assistant and then a public servant.  Monika had senior positions in several provincial ministries including the Ministry of Health twice where she was a senior physician compensation negotiator (1998-2003) and the Director of Public Health Standards (2006-2010).

Her undergraduate and graduate work was in Anthropology at McMaster University.  She has a Masters of Law degree (ADR) from Osgoode Law School (2002) and a Masters of Public Health from the University of Waterloo (2011).

Having experienced family violence in her own life, Monika is looking forward to contributing to the Board in their important work to prevent gender-based violence in our community.