Tracy Leong (she/her/they/them) joined the Guttmacher Institute as a Communications Assistant in 2019 and was promoted to Senior U.S. Communications Assistant in 2020. In this role, she supports the U.S. Communications team’s outreach, dissemination and media relations efforts to promote Guttmacher’s domestic research and policy work. Ms. Leong serves on the Institute’s interdivisional LGBTQ committee to foster an inclusive workplace and is passionate about the intersection of sexual and reproductive health and rights and LGBTQ health and rights.

Ms. Leong has worked in the field of sexual and reproductive health since 2010, providing direct services as a sexual health educator and HIV-prevention counselor for the queer community at Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, in New York City. Ms. Leong holds a BA in sociology from Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY), and an MPH in health policy and management from the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy.