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Author · Speaker · Rare Disease Patient Advocate

From the boardroom to a neck brace.


For more than 25 years, I led global teams in audit, governance, and tech. Then a rare disease unraveled the life I knew.

 

I’m what medicine calls a zebra: rare and routinely dismissed.

From the boardroom to a neck brace.


For more than 25 years, I led global teams in audit, governance, and tech. Then a rare disease unraveled the life I knew.

 

I’m what medicine calls a zebra: rare and routinely dismissed.

From the boardroom to a neck brace.


For more than 25 years, I led global teams in audit, governance, and tech. Then a rare disease unraveled the life I knew.

 

I’m what medicine calls a zebra: rare and routinely dismissed.

Rare Unveiled: A Memoir

20 months. 26 specialists. 111 appointments.

First book in the You Might Be a Zebra series

Rare Unveiled:
A Memoir

20 months. 26 specialists.

111 appointments.

First book in the You Might Be a Zebra series

If you are looking to book Monica for a speaking engagement, media appearance or professional collaboration, please reach out. Topics include rare disease, chronic illness, patient advocacy, and the lived experience of CCI, Chiari, Tethered Cord and hEDS.

If you are looking to book Monica for a speaking engagement, media appearance or professional collaboration, please reach out. Topics include rare disease, chronic illness, patient advocacy, and the lived experience of CCI, Chiari, Tethered Cord, and hEDS.

Rebuild what the world can't see

One small step, repeated, can rewrite everything.

Rare Unveiled. My memoir of unraveling and the woman I became.

© 2026 You Might Be A Zebra LLC
Writing and content by Monica Dubeau

Rebuild what the world
can't see

One small step, repeated, can rewrite everything.

Rare Unveiled. My memoir of unraveling and the woman I became.

© 2026 You Might Be A Zebra LLC
Writing and content by Monica Dubeau

Rebuild what the world
can't see

One small step, repeated, can rewrite everything.

Rare Unveiled. My memoir of

unraveling and the woman I became.

© 2026 You Might Be A Zebra LLC
Writing and content by Monica Dubeau