Gina DeLuca

Gina DeLuca is a content development associate at the Center for Disaster Philanthropy. In her role, she is responsible for researching and writing blog posts, issue insights and disaster profiles, along with improving and creating other educational products.

Gina has been working as a freelance writer, a comedian and a cartoonist in Chicago for 14 years, and she recently graduated with her MFA in nonfiction writing from Washington University in St. Louis. She is an assistant editor at The Rumpus, and her work has been published in Slate, The New Yorker and her own Substack newsletter, REJECTED.

Before transitioning to creative and editing work, Gina was an instructional designer of e-learning courses for various companies and nonprofit organizations. As a certified storm spotter with the National Weather Service, she fulfills her long-held fascination with tornadoes.

Most importantly, Gina has a strong sense of community. She is passionate about humanitarian work and has volunteered for causes such as hunger, the refugee crisis in Chicago and literacy.