About

Mona Zhang is a reporter for POLITICO, whose work focuses on New York and New Jersey energy and environmental policy.

She previously covered cannabis policy, joining POLITICO for the launch of its first-in-the-nation cannabis policy team in 2019. Before joining POLITICO, she founded and edited the daily cannabis newsletter Word on the Tree. She was also a freelance journalist on the cannabis beat, and her work has appeared in Forbes, The Outline, Vice, High Times, and more.