Christina Monson ’92

Christina Monson ’92, of Nashua N.H.; Nov. 19, of metastatic breast cancer. She spent her junior year abroad in Nepal, which began a lifelong passion for the country and Tibetan Buddhism. After working in Chicago for Equity Office Properties for several years, she returned to Nepal to work for World Learning as the assistant director of its Experiment in International Learning program. She was eventually promoted to associate dean for East Asian Academic Studies for World Learning. She became proficient in spoken and written Tibetan and Nepali, and was a translator for Buddhist teachers who traveled throughout Europe and the United States. In 2017, she was certified as a business coach by the Ivey Business School in Hong Kong. She later founded Monson Coaching and Translations LLC. Her lifelong passion for the lineage and teachings of the Tibetan Buddhist Sera Khandro (1892-1940) led her to translating and writing A Dakini’s Counsel, a book of translations of Sera Khandro’s teachings. She was active with the Asia Foundation and was an avid skier, formerly competing as a member of Brown’s ski team.