Kayla partners with global companies on projects centering on the corporate responsibility to respect human rights, focusing on companies within the energy, extractives, industrials, transport, and consumer sectors. She also co-leads BSR’s Human Rights Working Group collaborative initiative and has spearheaded BSR’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including advising on rapid human rights due diligence.

Prior to joining BSR, Kayla spent several years advising multinational companies and investors on human rights as an Adviser at the Danish Institute for Human Rights, during which she also served as a Lecturer in Law at the University of Amsterdam. Previously, she worked on global anti-corruption investigations and cross-border white collar litigations as an Associate Attorney at the international law firm King & Spalding LLP, where she was the founding member of the firm’s Business and Human Rights Initiative.

Kayla holds a J.D. and a Certificate in Global Human Rights from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, which included course work at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, and a B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude from Tulane University. She is a fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar and a frequent contributor to the Salzburg Global Corporate Governance Forum.