About

Emily Mock grew up in San Francisco and at her cousins’ homes across the Bay Area. As an artist and organizer, she uses creative and cultural practice to support the political education and development of working class people as leaders and protagonists. Emily is currently the Lead Youth Organizer at the Chinese Progressive Association San Francisco. She was formerly the Lead Organizer of the Chinatown Tenants Union at CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities and earlier, Program Associate at The Laundromat Project, both in New York City.

Emily was the 2018 点面 Storefront Artist-in-Residence at The W.O.W. Project, where she and community members created paper shadow puppet characters and stories in the Sweeping Away Evil Shadow Puppet Theater. These were cut and filmed during 17 stand-alone, public, paper cutting and shadow puppetry workshops at 26 Mott St (The W.O.W. Project) and Columbus Park in Manhattan Chinatown.

Emily facilitates paper cutting workshops and political education trainings in English and Mandarin with all ages.