Hazel Leung

Hazel Leung is a Senior Product Designer at NPR, where responsibilities include leading research and design for podcast production, publishing, and distribution workflows across multiple teams and vendors. Key contributions include developing service blueprints that visualize complex cross-departmental user interactions and modernizing a podcast sponsorship insertion tool that significantly improved revenue. Previously, Hazel served as a UX Designer & Web Developer at the University of California San Diego, enhancing client websites to reduce drop-off rates. An early career at the Comparative Cognition Lab involved project leadership in research on children's perception of property and a scholarship-supported independent project on adult perceptions of entitlement, alongside expertise in experimental design and data analysis. Hazel holds a Bachelor of Science in Cognitive Science with a specialization in Human Computer Interaction from UC San Diego.