Rep. Monique Priestley is serving her second term as a Vermont State Representative for Orange-2, the district covering Bradford, Fairlee and West Fairlee. She is Vice Chair of the Joint Information Technology Oversight Committee and sits on the House Committee on Commerce and Economic Development. In the Legislature she has led Vermont’s efforts on consumer protection, particularly data privacy, artificial intelligence and the right to repair.

Nationally, she serves on the National Conference of State Legislatures’ Task Force on Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Privacy, and co-chairs the Future Caucus National Task Force on State AI Policy. She was named a 2024 National Champion of Freedom by the Electronic Privacy Information Center and one of the Council of State Governments’ Top 20 Under 40.

Before entering the Legislature, she spent more than two decades working in technology, including as Director of Digital for CampusCE, an education software company in Seattle. In 2017 she founded The Space On Main, a nonprofit community workspace in Bradford. She holds a Master of Communication in Digital Media from the University of Washington.