Mohini Tamrakar

CalHOPE Outreach Worker

Mohini Tamrakar was born in Nepal and grew up in the capital of Nepal, Kathmandu. She has a diploma in Architecture Engineering from Institute of Engineering, Pulchowk (IOE). She was working for the Town Development Project under Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) for 14yrs as a Junior Architect. 

She came to the United States in February 2011. Since then, she has worked in different places like Subway, Safeway and Walgreens as a cashier. Beside those works, she is involved in some of Nepali organizations and groups like Newa Organization, Nepali Association of Northern California (NANC), Nepali Community Support Group where she helps her community members and guides them in navigating different resources.She is one of the grantees for CERI’s first cohort  Advocate for Community Wealth(ACW) training and has been supporting her communities,especially focusing on women's mental health wellness.

Starting January 2023, she joined CERI’s as a CalHOPE Outreach Worker and has been helping and supporting communities as their needs.

Currently, Mohini is one of the grantees of Wellness In Action Community Advocate Cohort 2023-2024.

Mohini is taking Domestic Violence volunteer training as well so that she can help and support DV survivors in the community to navigate resources to move forward in their life.

Mohini.Tamrakar@cerieastbay.org