Emily Mock (she/her) grew up in San Francisco and at her cousins’ homes across the Bay Area. Emily was the 2018 点面 Storefront Artist-in-Residence at The W.O.W. Project, where she and community members created the Sweeping Away Evil Shadow Puppet Theater through 17 paper cutting and shadow puppetry workshops at 26 Mott St and Columbus Park. Using creative and cultural practice to support political education and leadership development of working class people is still her favorite as the Lead Youth Organizer at Chinese Progressive Association San Francisco. She was formerly the Lead Organizer of the Chinatown Tenants Union at CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities and Program Associate at The Laundromat Project, both in New York City.