Eliona is a PHD Candidate in Disability Studies, researching the experience of gender-based violence and access to justice for disabled women in Iceland. She holds a First-Class Honours LLM Degree in International and Comparative Disability Law and Policy, and a First-Class Honours BA International Degree (Sociology & Political Sciences and Spanish), from NUI Galway. Since January 2019, she is a serving member on the first ever Statutory Disability Advisory Committee in Ireland, appointed by The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission.
She has been recognized as 1 out of 10 Outstanding Young People of Ireland 2018 by Junior Chamber International, for her disability activism, achievements, and volunteering with disability NGOs. She was chairperson of Galway Visually Impaired Activity Club from 2016-2020, and auditor of the Inclusion & Motivation for Promoting Access to Community Transformation & Engagement Society, which she founded and co-set up in 2017, and led from 2017-2019.