Leilani Marie Labong is a San Francisco journalist writing about travel, design, and food for national publications like WSJ Off Duty, Bloomberg CityLab, National Geographic, Architectural Digest, Elle Decor, Saveur, Garden & Gun, Travel + Leisure, FoodPrint, and Virtuoso. She has held senior editorial roles at various publications, including editor in chief of Habitat, a shelter magazine published by the San Francisco Chronicle. Leilani has earned a Society of Professional Journalists award for Excellence in Long-Form Storytelling (2022) and a Maggie Award for Best Profile (2019). She holds an MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco.