The plan raised urgent questions for students: whether housing growth would actually include below-market, student-dedicated beds, and whether campus expansion would protect green space and meet health and climate standards. With food insecurity and long commutes already widespread, students pressed for decisions that put people over profit.

Mohkam coordinated student submissions, translated concerns into clear, measurable asks, and addressed university leadership directly. He tied policy language to lived experience, cost of rent, transit access, and time lost to commuting, while pushing for transparent metrics, annual reporting, and meaningful consultation throughout implementation.

The university conceded a Greater role for the UCSD in co-planning the Neighborhood Climate Action Plans (NCAPs), including agenda-setting, workshop design, and feedback synthesis, and committed to firmer NCAP action with clearer timelines, defined deliverables, and public progress updates. Student priorities around affordability and green space are now recurring themes in planning materials, and a durable coalition exists to monitor milestones and sustain pressure.

International climate forums often miss local realities and youth voices. Mohkam used his COP work to bring a youth voice into rooms where outcomes are set, then translate those outcomes into practical next steps at home (on campus and in the city).

Ahead of COP30, Mohkam convened student and community roundtables to turn priorities into briefing notes. He met with community groups and local innovators to carry their stories and solutions to COP30. He also produced a number of short-form videos to explain the COP process for students and newcomers to climate policy. During COP, he posted daily dispatches, held stakeholder meetings, and shared summary threads to keep people informed of what was happening on the ground.

After COP30, Parties adopted an agreement centered on the 2025 update of national climate plans (NDCs) and on accelerating implementation across mitigation, adaptation, finance, and inclusion. Mohkam will translate those directives into local action with partners across Metro Vancouver, leading to concrete pilots (e.g., youth-participation mechanisms, transit-linked adaptation measures). In addition, he will work to turn these global commitments into local policy wins.

Students were navigating a severe cost-of-living crunch while key student union budgets and fee decisions often felt opaque or last-minute. The AMS had been posting significant deficits, and campus climate was strained by incidents of antisemitism and other forms of hate, eroding trust and participation. Mohkam’s campaigns aimed to make financial decisions understandable and predictable ,and to make student government unequivocal about safety for everyone.

Mohkam shifted the conversation toward practical transparency a push that lead to the AMS passing its first balanced budget in four years. He was a key campaigner in defeating two fee-increase referenda, helping keep student costs down. He kept affordability front and center in forums and media Q&A, translating budget jargon into concrete impacts for students, in addition he advanced a student food-discount initiative that continues to move forward. In parallel, he publicly opposed antisemitism and all forms of hate, pressed for safety first protocols and due process, and met across communities to lower temperature and keep participation accessible.

Mohkams campaigns helped make affordability and transparency non-negotiable in student politics and set an expectation for advance notice and plain-language reporting around budgets and fees. They also strengthened a campus norm that combating antisemitism. Notably, UBC President Benoit-Antoine Bacon publicly committed before the House of Commons that UBC would adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism. This was a result for pressure from Jewish students and allies on campus.