Monique Marie Steele ’81, December 14, 2004, in Berkeley, California, from cancer. Monique earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Reed. Following graduation, she worked in Portland as a legal investigator for the Urban Indian Council before moving to the San Francisco Bay Area where she became a paralegal. She attended CUNY Law School, Queens College, New York, receiving a JD in 1987, after which she accepted positions at legal firms in San Francisco and Oakland, working toward a specialty in civil rights law. In 1997 she was employed by Matthew Bender & Company, a legal reference book publisher, and in 2000 became a staff attorney for the California Public Utilities Commission. She was also a volunteer for the Coalition for Civil Rights. Survivors include her partner, Peter Bordwell, and their two children; her mother, longtime Reed staff member Ineke Steele; her father, brother, and sister.
