Leila joined Portfolio, an imprint of Penguin Random House, in April 2023. She’s excited to acquire and edit idea-driven nonfiction by brilliant thinkers and innovators who change the way we see the world and amplify marginalized and underrepresented voices. She graduated from New York University with a B.A. in linguistics.

Before moving to New York, she grew up in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, where she enjoyed hiking, biking, and bird watching.