• Executive Team Member: 2020-2025

Kayla is a System Reliability Engineer at Amazon Prime Air. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Ohio State University. As an undergraduate, Kayla was honored with the Morrill Scholar's Distinction Full Academic Scholarship and with the Minority Engineering Program's Freshman Excellence Award. While serving as President of the Organization of Black Aerospace Professionals (OBAP), Kayla led an effort to develop “UAV Safety City,” a low-cost, low-regulatory-footprint UAV testing facility in the state of Ohio. She also worked as a researcher for the Battelle Center for Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, developing commercial space public policy recommendations and analysis.

After interning at General Electric Aviation, Kayla was selected as a member of the Brooke Owens Fellowship Class of 2018. As a Brookie, Kayla worked at Amazon Prime Air, continuing directly into her full-time position at the firm. Kayla has served in many different roles as an alumna of the Fellowship – including as a mentor, a member of the selection committee, and as the community’s main liaison with industry associations and affinity groups such as the National Society of Black Engineers and the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers.