Assistant Treasurer

MONA ROMAIN is assistant treasurer of the UFT and has served as an elected trustee on the board of the Teachers’ Retirement System of the City of New York since 1998. She shares, with her fellow board members, the fiduciary responsibilities of overseeing the policies, funding and investments of the system to ensure benefits for the contributors and beneficiaries.

Mona is a member of the union’s Executive Board, serves on the Pension and Retirement Committees of the UFT and NYSUT. From 1990 to 1997 she served as a special representative in the Pension Department. She was elected as the union’s assistant secretary in 1997.

Mona began her career as a teacher of mathematics in Brooklyn, first at IS 246 from 1971 to 1981, and later at Samuel J. Tilden HS from 1981 to 1990. She served as delegate to the Delegate Assembly from both schools.

She earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees and an Advance Certificate in Administration and Supervision from Brooklyn College and earned a certificate in Pension Funds and Money Management from Wharton School Executive Education Program, University of Pennsylvania.

Mona is a member of the executive board of the National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems; a member of the legislative committee of the National Council on Teachers Retirement and a member of the National Association of Securities Specialists – New York Foundation board.