Umme Laiba Raha is a Ph.D. student in Urban Planning at Arizona State University, focusing on GeoAI and spatial machine learning for housing affordability research. She holds a Master of Urban and Environmental Planning from ASU and has worked as a Planning, Community, and Economic Development Associate at aLocal.ai, a GIS Consultant for Pueblo County, and a Research Assistant with the Arizona Research Center for Housing and Economic Solutions (ARCHES). Her work centers on spatial intelligence, geospatial analytics, and data-driven methods to support housing affordability, land-use planning, and economic development.