Monika Hudson, Ph.D.

Monika Hudson is a public administration professional with twenty-nine years of experience and the Managing Principal of The MGT Group. Until July 2007, she directed the Renaissance/Bayview Business Resource Center, a micro-enterprise technical support program located in the Bayview/Hunters Point section of San Francisco, which helps emerging and existing businesses grow and thrive.

Over the last seventeen years, Dr. Hudson has focused on general administration, policy analysis, economic development and strategic planning projects including providing business education training for Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center and other micro-enterprise organizations. A trained mediator and facilitator, she has facilitated strategic planning sessions for the State of California’s Department of Health Services; conducted strategic planning training for numerous public and not-for-profit agencies; and developed financial feasibility analyses/business plans for the creation of non-profit associated, for-profit ventures in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Dr. Hudson has served as City Manager of the City of East Palo Alto, Interim City Manager for the Town of Colma and Assistant City Administrator for the City of Millbrae, California. Dr. Hudson has also worked in the cities of Oakland, South San Francisco, Sacramento, and Oxnard, California in a variety of senior management and policy analyst positions.

Dr. Hudson received her undergraduate degrees in communications studies and political science from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois; completed her graduate work in public administration at California State University – Northridge; and received her masters in business administration from University of San Francisco. She is a Mandel Fellow and received her doctorate in management from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.