Education
University of Sydney.
Human rights campaigner and politician
University of Sydney.
Leong is the first person to represent Newtown in its current form, as it was created for the 2015 election. At university, Leong served as the Sydney University Postgraduate Representative Association President, for 18 months, from February 2006 to July 2007. Leong was elected to the Sydney University Senate in 2007, serving for one year.
Leong also managed the NSW Greens" campaign for the 2013 federal election.
She joins Jamie Parker in the lower house of the New South Wales Parliament. Leong was born in 1977, and moved to Newtown in 1996 when she was 19.
Leong worked with Amnesty International for approximately five years from 2008 to 2012, as a crisis coordinator and as a campaign organiser, before entering politics. Although based in London, Hong Kong and Australia, Leong worked all over the world.
At Amnesty she oversaw the organisation"s response to the Arab Spring, as well as protecting freedom of expression in Burmese elections.
She also served over three years on the Human Rights Law Resource Centre advisory committee.
She was the Greens candidate for the division of Sydney at the 2004 and 2007 federal elections, but was unsuccessful.