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Throughout her career, she has focused on social marketing and risk communications where she developed and managed programs to communicate health risks to populations historically exposed to toxic substances. These programs are now standard communication models adopted by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). In addition, Moka has significant experience in program development for technology start-ups, with a specific expertise in collaborative, social technologies.
Throughout her career, she has focused on social marketing and risk communications where she developed and managed programs to communicate health risks to populations historically exposed to toxic substances. These programs are now standard communication models adopted by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). In addition, Moka has significant experience in program development for technology start-ups, with a specific expertise in collaborative, social technologies.


Moka is originally from the DC/Metro area where worked at Ruder Finn, supporting communications efforts for healthcare and biotech initiatives. She graduated from the University of Maryland and began her career as a communications and grant manager for a local NGO, the Black Leadership Council for Excellence, and as an intern on Capitol Hill with Senator Barbra Mikulski.
Moka is originally from the DC/Metro area where she worked at Ruder Finn, supporting communications efforts for healthcare and biotech initiatives. She graduated from the University of Maryland and began her career as a communications and grant manager for a local NGO, the Black Leadership Council for Excellence, and as an intern on Capitol Hill with Senator Barbra Mikulski.


In her free time, she provides communications counsel to the Korean American Cultural Arts Foundation. You can follow her on Twitter and Identi.ca @Moka
In her free time, she provides communications counsel to the Korean American Cultural Arts Foundation. You can follow her on Twitter and Identi.ca @Moka

Revision as of 22:16, 14 November 2009

Moka Pantages has been the Communications Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation since October 2009.

Moka brings nine years of communication and program development experience to her role, immediately joining the Foundation from Seoul, South Korea, where she worked for the Seoul Broadcasting Service (SBS News) as a Program Manager while completing her MA at Yonsei University. Prior to her move to Seoul, she lived in Seattle and Austin while working with Porter Novelli, a multinational communications firm, where she worked as a senior executive on behalf of health and technology clients such as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control, Hewlett Packard and the SXSW Interactive Conference.

Throughout her career, she has focused on social marketing and risk communications where she developed and managed programs to communicate health risks to populations historically exposed to toxic substances. These programs are now standard communication models adopted by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). In addition, Moka has significant experience in program development for technology start-ups, with a specific expertise in collaborative, social technologies.

Moka is originally from the DC/Metro area where she worked at Ruder Finn, supporting communications efforts for healthcare and biotech initiatives. She graduated from the University of Maryland and began her career as a communications and grant manager for a local NGO, the Black Leadership Council for Excellence, and as an intern on Capitol Hill with Senator Barbra Mikulski.

In her free time, she provides communications counsel to the Korean American Cultural Arts Foundation. You can follow her on Twitter and Identi.ca @Moka