Genesa has built a 25-year career as a community leader and social justice advocate. Genesa joined Vancity Community Foundation in early 2022 where she is being tasked to facilitate systemic change by leveraging the Foundation's assets to build a just and sustainable future. Genesa has led the reorientation of the work of the Foundation by centering commitments to Truth + Reconciliation, decolonization, anti-racism, climate justice, trust-based philanthropy, and to being community-led.

Prior to joining Vancity Community Foundation, Genesa served as President and CEO of the BC Women's Health Foundation, an organization recognized as an effective advocate for women's healthcare policy, research investment, and as a voice for gender equity and intersectionality in health.

For nearly ten years, she worked in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside on homelessness, poverty, mental health, and addiction as Executive Director of the First United Community Society after serving as Director of Community Strategies and Resource Development at Union Gospel Mission. During this time Genesa was a founding member of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls Coalition as a response to the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry.

Genesa has also worked abroad as Chief Operating Officer of The Dream Corps in Oakland, California, working to support Black communities throughout the US through the reformation of the criminal justice system, growth of the green economy, and inclusion in the tech sector.

In addition, Genesa is a dedicated community volunteer. She sits on the Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver, Elizabeth Bagshaw Clinic, and Philanthropic Foundations of Canada Boards of Directors. Genesa is also the Board Chair of the Elizabeth Fry Health Society's Board of Directors and serves on the Advisory Board to the Institute of Gender and Health, part of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and the Women's Health Research Institute's Scientific Advisory Committee.

However, Genesa’s most important title is Mama. She is the proud single mother to her eight-year-old boy, Nnamdi. They love reading together and exploring nature with their two pups, Bishop and Fawkes. The great outdoors of BC reminds Genesa of where she was born and raised – Newfoundland and Labrador – and where she also developed her love for community building, storytelling, wind and water.

Genesa is grateful that she gets to live, work, and play on the traditional, unceded, and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ílwətaʔ /Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.