She's a routine contributor to the Center for Investigative Reporting, PBS NewsHour, Columbia Journalism Review, PRI The World, and more. In 2017, Monet received top honors for her coverage of the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. Monet studied journalism at Columbia University where she earned an MA in International Politics with a concentration in Indigenous Human Rights Policy. She is a tribal citizen of the Pueblo of Laguna, a tribal nation in New Mexico, and lives between New York and Tucson when not on assignment.