Before joining Mercy Corps, Kyla was a senior account executive at Jascula/Terman and Associates, a Chicago-based public affairs firm. She handled media relations, stakeholder engagement and special events for a variety of nonprofit and private sector clients. Prior to working in public relations, Kyla was a communications associate atCounterpart International, an international development organization in Washington, DC. Her role included writing and editing collateral materials for donors, developing a media toolkit for field staff, and collecting beneficiary stories in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Senegal.