Genesis Leong is an Urban and Regional Planning, and Disaster Management & Humanitarian Assistance graduate student at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her research interests are on disability data focused on capacity building, intersectionality of disability & disaster studies, climate resilience, and transportation. In addition, she is the public information specialist at the Center on Disability Studies and has 16+ years of experience in planning large scale events and digital marketing efforts focused on
creating spaces for data in disability and diverse issues to be shared.