Prior to joining Staten Island Legal Services, Genna served as a legal fellow at the Domestic Violence Project at the Urban Justice Center. Genna earned her A.B. from Brown University and her J.D. from the New York University School of Law, where she was a Thurgood Marshall Scholar and an editor of the Review of Law and Social Change. Prior to embarking on her legal career, Genna was a research and policy analyst for the National Air Traffic