Mona Wang Email & Phone Number

Lead on Strategy, Planning, and Operations for NRDC's Nature Department

Bridging cross-departmental collaborations to streamline and strengthen organizational impact with engaging key funders in the climate philanthropy sectorSupporting session design and planning for major annual convenings organizing key funders within the climate philanthropy sector to maximize collective action and impact in mitigating climate change

*Program Operations and Finance*Designed and managed a $24MM ($8MM annually) program budget across 20+ partner organizations (e.g., national partners, regional partners, funders) on all grant and loan programs, including overall multi-year program budget, annual discretionary budgets, implementation partner budgets, and various grantee/award funding pools.

San Francisco Bay Area

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Managed a $10MM program by facilitating global cross-teams coordination covering 5 countries (Colombia, DRC, Peru, Indonesia, and Guyana) for WWF’s Forest & Climate Program to design and meet program objectives through adaptive management on empowering and building capacity of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities’ participation in forest and climate.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Improved major agricultural retailer sourcing strategies through risk assessments on environmental, social, and governance criteria from large-scale production of various agricultural commodities in major production countriesInformed The Coca-Cola Company’s value chain strategy by identifying points of leverage within their bottler network to mitigate.

New Haven, CT

Organized global forest policy knowledge-sharing workshop for policy learning between academics and practitioners based in Latin America for the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) Task Force on International Forest Governance in San José, Costa Rica (June 2013)Lead-authored IUFRO Task Force - International Forest Governance policy.

Cusco, Peru

Designed evaluation tools including surveys and interview questions used to assess impact of project benefits distribution system on indigenous community livelihoods in the Peruvian Andes-Amazon regionAnalyzed and drafted results of project benefits distribution system as a strategy to reduce deforestation and strengthen REDD+ framework benefit sharing.

Analyzed and evaluated standards for promoting private sector social and environmental standards (CCBA) for achieving meaningful participation of Indigenous Peoples in the design of Indígena REDD+ pilot projectsRecommended best-practices in monitoring and evaluation methods emphasizing effective participation and empowerment of Indigenous Peoples

Mentored and led a group of high school students from low-income, under-served communities to become future conservation leaders by conducting field and laboratory research explorations in the Tijuana River Estuary, in collaboration with local non-profit organization Ocean Discovery Institute.Organized and executed field and laboratory work, manuscript.

Master Of Environmental Management (Mem), Community-Based Forest Management, Indigenous Rights, Global Forest And Climate Policy

Activities and Societies: Environmental Justice at Yale (EJAY), Co-Chair

Bachelor Of Arts, Anthropology (Minors: Environmental Studies, Latin American Literature)