diff --git a/lib/utils/role-utils.js b/lib/utils/role-utils.js
--- a/lib/utils/role-utils.js
+++ b/lib/utils/role-utils.js
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 import * as React from 'react';
 
+import { useSelector } from './redux-utils.js';
+import { threadInfoSelector } from '../selectors/thread-selectors.js';
 import {
   type UserSurfacedPermissionOption,
   userSurfacedPermissions,
@@ -9,6 +11,7 @@
 } from '../types/thread-permission-types.js';
 import type { ThreadType } from '../types/thread-types-enum.js';
 import { threadTypes } from '../types/thread-types-enum.js';
+import type { ThreadInfo, RelativeMemberInfo } from '../types/thread-types.js';
 
 function useFilterPermissionOptionsByThreadType(
   threadType: ThreadType,
@@ -74,8 +77,50 @@
   }, [roleName, defaultRoleID, existingRoleID]);
 }
 
+function useRoleNamesFromCommunityThreadInfo(
+  threadInfo: ThreadInfo,
+  memberInfos: $ReadOnlyArray<RelativeMemberInfo>,
+): $ReadOnlyMap<string, ?string> {
+  // Our in-code system has chat-specific roles, while the
+  // user-surfaced system has roles only for communities. We retrieve roles
+  // from the top-level community thread for accuracy, with a rare fallback
+  // for potential issues reading memberInfos, primarily in GENESIS threads.
+  // The special case is GENESIS threads, since per prior discussion
+  // (see context: https://linear.app/comm/issue/ENG-4077/), we don't really
+  // support roles for it. Also with GENESIS, the list of members are not
+  // populated in the community root. So in this case to prevent crashing, we
+  // should just return the role name from the current thread info.
+  const { community } = threadInfo;
+  const communityThreadInfo = useSelector(state =>
+    community ? threadInfoSelector(state)[community] : null,
+  );
+  const topMostThreadInfo = communityThreadInfo || threadInfo;
+  const roleMap = new Map();
+
+  if (topMostThreadInfo.type === threadTypes.GENESIS) {
+    memberInfos.forEach(memberInfo =>
+      roleMap.set(
+        memberInfo.id,
+        memberInfo.role ? threadInfo.roles[memberInfo.role].name : null,
+      ),
+    );
+  } else {
+    const { members: memberInfosFromTopMostThreadInfo, roles } =
+      topMostThreadInfo;
+    memberInfosFromTopMostThreadInfo.forEach(memberInfo => {
+      roleMap.set(
+        memberInfo.id,
+        memberInfo.role && roles[memberInfo.role].name,
+      );
+    });
+  }
+
+  return roleMap;
+}
+
 export {
   useFilterPermissionOptionsByThreadType,
   constructRoleDeletionMessagePrompt,
   useRoleDeletableAndEditableStatus,
+  useRoleNamesFromCommunityThreadInfo,
 };
diff --git a/native/chat/settings/thread-settings-member.react.js b/native/chat/settings/thread-settings-member.react.js
--- a/native/chat/settings/thread-settings-member.react.js
+++ b/native/chat/settings/thread-settings-member.react.js
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
   type ThreadInfo,
   type RelativeMemberInfo,
 } from 'lib/types/thread-types.js';
+import { useRoleNamesFromCommunityThreadInfo } from 'lib/utils/role-utils.js';
 
 import type { ThreadSettingsNavigate } from './thread-settings.react.js';
 import UserAvatar from '../../avatars/user-avatar.react.js';
@@ -54,6 +55,7 @@
 type Props = {
   ...BaseProps,
   // Redux state
+  +roleName: ?string,
   +removeUserLoadingStatus: LoadingStatus,
   +changeRoleLoadingStatus: LoadingStatus,
   +colors: Colors,
@@ -114,14 +116,10 @@
       );
     }
 
-    const roleName =
-      this.props.memberInfo.role &&
-      this.props.threadInfo.roles[this.props.memberInfo.role].name;
-
     const roleInfo = (
       <View style={this.props.styles.row}>
         <Text style={this.props.styles.role} numberOfLines={1}>
-          {roleName}
+          {this.props.roleName}
         </Text>
       </View>
     );
@@ -274,10 +272,16 @@
     const keyboardState = React.useContext(KeyboardContext);
     const overlayContext = React.useContext(OverlayContext);
 
+    const roleNames = useRoleNamesFromCommunityThreadInfo(props.threadInfo, [
+      props.memberInfo,
+    ]);
+    const roleName = roleNames.get(props.memberInfo.id);
+
     return (
       <ThreadSettingsMember
         {...props}
         memberInfo={memberInfo}
+        roleName={roleName}
         removeUserLoadingStatus={removeUserLoadingStatus}
         changeRoleLoadingStatus={changeRoleLoadingStatus}
         colors={colors}
diff --git a/web/modals/threads/members/member.react.js b/web/modals/threads/members/member.react.js
--- a/web/modals/threads/members/member.react.js
+++ b/web/modals/threads/members/member.react.js
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
   useDispatchActionPromise,
   useServerCall,
 } from 'lib/utils/action-utils.js';
+import { useRoleNamesFromCommunityThreadInfo } from 'lib/utils/role-utils.js';
 
 import ChangeMemberRoleModal from './change-member-role-modal.react.js';
 import css from './members-modal.css';
@@ -42,8 +43,11 @@
   const { memberInfo, threadInfo, setOpenMenu, isMenuOpen } = props;
   const { pushModal } = useModalContext();
   const userName = stringForUser(memberInfo);
-  const { roles } = threadInfo;
-  const { role } = memberInfo;
+
+  const roleNames = useRoleNamesFromCommunityThreadInfo(threadInfo, [
+    memberInfo,
+  ]);
+  const roleName = roleNames.get(memberInfo.id);
 
   const onMenuChange = React.useCallback(
     menuOpen => {
@@ -110,8 +114,6 @@
     [],
   );
 
-  const roleName = role && roles[role].name;
-
   const label = React.useMemo(
     () => <Label variant="grey">{roleName}</Label>,
     [roleName],