Monica Haskell is a longtime resident of the Florida Keys with a master's degree in business management and an extensive service record in local government, public education, and the nonprofit sector.
Haskell's career in local government began with service on the Monroe County Board of Adjustments. In the 1990s, she chaired the Monroe County Planning Commission during a particularly tumultuous time for growth management. She is a former chairperson of the Key West Sustainability Advisory Board, a past member of the Florida Keys Contractors Examining Board, the Truman Waterfront Park Arts Vision Board, and a founding member of the Key West Art in Public Places Board.
A former executive director of the Florida Keys Council of the Arts and Key West Literary Seminar, Haskell co-founded Key West Montessori Charter School, the first charter school in Monroe County. She published the Key West Magazine Visitors Guide and is a Leadership Monroe Class VII member. Today, she owns the small business Yoga Key West, consults as a grant writer, and is involved in her family's business running historic wooden schooners and other vessels in the Key West Bight and elsewhere.