Dr. Mont-Reynaud received her PhD in Developmental Psychology at Harvard University, and an M.A. in Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
As a Research Associate at Stanford, she contributed to several studies on children and adolescents of diverse nations, including Australia and Hong Kong, as well among American minority youth.
In 1997, in collaboration with Clayborne Carson of the History Department, she compiled and edited the writings of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for an autobiographical narrative that was published by Time Warner as The Autobiography of Martin Luther King.
At Stanford, Dr. Mont-Reynauds courses on Haiti included: Haiti: The Medical Rec