Bio
Kayla serves as the Director in the LGBTQ+ Center.
Kayla is passionate about leveraging education and personal development opportunities in concert with organizational strategies to drive structural change related to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and they have explored this work through multiple avenues. They originally joined the Wake Forest community in 2015 as the Program Coordinator for the LGBTQ+ Center where they were promoted to Assistant Director and then Associate Director. In 2022, Kayla moved into the role of Inclusive Practice Manager in the central Office of Diversity and Inclusion where they worked toward embedding inclusive practice across organizational practices at WFU. Following the departure of the previous director, Kayla returned to the LGBTQ+ Center in August 2022 in the Interim Director role.
They have a diverse educational background; they are a 2021 graduate of the Wake Forest University Master of Business Administration program where they focused their studies on organizational behavior, DEI strategy, change management and leadership development. They also hold a Master of Education in Higher Education and Student Affairs from the University of South Carolina and a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from the University of Alabama.