Dr. Mona Lake Jones is an author, educator and community activist. She was named Poet Laureate for the City of Seattle and Martin Luther King County. She travels extensively throughout the country speaking on issues of culture and diversity.
Jones has been a teacher at the elementary, college and university level and was Director of Communications for the Seattle Community College District. Her community activities include serving as president of Seattle Black Child Development Institute and the Washington State Community College Black Educators. She was vice president of the National Council on Black American Affairs and the local Seattle Chapter of Links where she chaired the Services to Youth program. She is a former member of the Seattle Youth Commission, Langston Hughes Board and the Joint Advisory Commission on Education.
Jones conducted Effective Black Parenting classes graduating over 200 parents; and was a founder and director of Mt. Zion Ethnic School. Mona Lake Jones was featured as one of twelve women on the National Distinguished Black Women calendar and chosen by the Ford Foundation to be a United States Freedom Sister.
