Mona Wang '13 M.E.M. (1st term ends 2022)
San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Mona is a Program Officer at Low Income Investment Fund, where she leads the operations management of a cross-organizational initiative focused on advancing investment policies for sustainable and equitable regional development in low-income communities and communities of color in various cities across the U.S. for racially equitable, healthy, and climate-resilient communities. She is also a member of the Board for the Charles Koiner Center for Urban Farming where she applies her love for growing vegetables with youth and fellow neighbors to create a network of urban farms in Montgomery County, MD for the next generation of sustainable food innovators. She has a background in sustainable development, specifically on issues related to reducing commodity-driven deforestation and sustainable land-use planning. In her years with the World Wildlife Fund, she managed several programs in various tropical countries, including Colombia, DRC, Guyana, Indonesia, and Peru, on reducing commodity-driven deforestation and advancing land-use policies and practices centered on empowering local and indigenous communities. As a member to the YSE Alumni Association Board, Mona’s priorities are to establish and expand on programs to increase support to current students and recent graduates of YSE from first-generation, low-income backgrounds. Her favorite memory of YSE is, of course, all the dance parties (there’s always a theme) and … THRILLER!