Media ARTICLES
Oct 2023: Living with Climate Swings: Heat 101. Dr. Hoi-Fei Mok is interviewed by Knee Deep Times on extreme heat adaptation in San Leandro.
Jun 2023: How Sea Level Rise is Posing a Looming Threat to San Leandro's Underground Infrastructure. Dr. Hoi-Fei Mok is interviewed by KQED for their sea level rise master plan work for San Leandro.
Sept 2022: Greenbelt Alliance's Hidden Heroes. Dr. Hoi-Fei Mok is recognized for their climate resilience work with the City of San Leandro.
Aug 2022: Podcast with Climate Vibes. This episode of Climate Vibes with Dr. Hoi-Fei Mok focuses on the importance of climate storytelling, especially for youth.
May 2021: For Asian and Black activists in the Bay Area fighting racism, coalition building is not new. After the Ferguson protests in 2014, a SF Bay Area group, Asians 4 Black Lives, formed to support Black Lives Matter activists in battle against white supremacy. A member of A4BL talks about how they did it and why coalition building was important.
Hoi-Fei Mok being interviewed by Jill Toyoshiba for the Kansas Star on Asian and Black coalition building. Photo by Leslie Mah (2021).
May 2021: These Portraits Depict the Radiance of Asian Trans Leaders. Jean Pham illustrates various radical Asian trans and non binary organizers and leaders for Autostraddle, including Mok.
Apr 2021: Boston Museum of Science Expert Panel on Climate Justice. Mok is one of three experts highlighted for the Museum's High School Science series.
Dec 2019: Alumnae 'Who Will' Not Conform: Wellesley Underground Highlights Nontraditional Post-Graduation Life. The Wellesley News interviews Mok for their work with Wellesley Underground.
Oct 2019: Q&A with the New City of San Leandro Sustainability Manager. San Leandro Next interviews Dr. Hoi-Fei Mok on their vision for climate resilience within the City of San Leandro
Sept 2019: City Hires New Manager of Sustainability San Leandro Times highlights the new hire of Dr. Hoi-Fei Mok to the Sustainability Office to oversee the Climate Action Plan
Mar 2019: Exposed and Closest: Climate Change, Poverty, and Homelessness Mok presents on the National Adaptation Forum 2019 climate justice webinar on impact of climate change on the unhoused with Lisa "Tiny" Gray-Garcia from POOR Magazine.
Oct 2017: Hope in Action Wellesley College Alumnae Magazine Fall 2017 interview on climate activism and environmentalism.
Sept 2017: VERGE17 Emerging Leaders. Mok was selected as one of the ten diversity scholarship awardees to young sustainability professionals to attend GreenBiz's VERGE17 Conference in Santa Clara. They met with Van Jones and leading sustainability business executives during the conference.
Aug 2017: Public Square: What Does Equity Look Like? Why Citizenship? Fellows with Yerba Buena Center of the Arts showcase the results of a year-long rumination over these pivotal questions with the Public Square.
May 2017: Street Art Installation in City of San Leandro. Hoi-Fei Mok's art on bee dieoff, climate change, and food systems got installed on a utility box on the corner of Dutton/Macarthur in San Leandro, CA.
Aug 2016: CivicSpark 2015-16 Graduation. Speakers included Michael McCormick, Senior Planner for the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research; Karen Baker, Chief Service Officer for California Volunteers; Ashley Conrad-Saydah, Deputy Secretary for Climate Policy for CalEPA; and CivicSpark 2015-16 Cohort Speaker, fellow Hoi-Fei Mok.
Feb 2016: Where Are They Now? Hoi-Fei Mok '10. Wellesley College's Center for Work and Service Alumnae Spotlight
June 2015: People of Coloring hosted Awakened Ancestors // Borrowed Futures for the United States Asian American Festival 2015. The event featured a pop-up exhibition of work by lead artists Amman Desai, Nicole Gervacio, Vincent Kukua, and Hoi-Fei Mok.
May 2015: The City of San Leandro hosted its first SolarWeek in May 2015 to explore renewable energy and the potential for San Leandro. Hoi-Fei Mok won 2nd place with a portable water filtration design at San Leandro Solar Week 2015's thin-film solar product design challenge with Sfuncube.
Mar 2014: Society of Risk Analysis: Stricter Controls of Wastewater Reuse on Crops Needed to Meet WHO Guidelines, Study Says. Food systems researchers Hoi-Fei Mok and Andrew J. Hamilton of The University of Melbourne in Australia created a statistical model to characterize the health risks posed by wastewater used to grow Asian vegetables.
Aug 2013: Bayer CropSciences Sponsors US Delegates to Inaugural Global Youth Ag Summit in Calgary, Canada.
Sept 2009: Hoi-Fei Mok is named Katherine Malone Scholar 2009 at Wellesley College. The prizes are given each year to honor students who have successfully combined academic excellence with a commitment to contributing to the college community.