Kaya (she/her) is a social change practitioner with over a decade of experience empowering individuals, communities, and organizations by applying behavioral science best practices to campaign & community program design, communication strategy, and volunteer leadership development. She has created & scaled many successful projects for nonprofits and institutions of higher education. Kaya is a graduate of the Sustainability & Behavior Change program at UCSD, one of the most robust professional certifications grounded in "Community Based Social Marketing": an internationally acclaimed approach to "selling" altruistic behavior adoption & encouraging community engagement. She is fascinated by the science of changing hearts and minds, and works diligently to ensure that organizations serving the public good have the same access to evidence-based strategy as the entities driving consumption, social division, and disempowerment. After many years focused primarily on sustainability & environmental justice, Kaya recognized that numerous movements face uphill battles due to political gridlock, toxic hyper-partisanship, private influence over representatives & regulatory agencies, and low levels of civic engagement. These problems can all be mitigated by reforming the way elections are organized & funded. Therefore, she now focuses much of her effort on "election reform", advising movement leaders on how to best communicate their ideas, reach new audiences, and mobilize the masses to fight for a fair & functional democracy. Kaya was honored to receive the inaugural "Power Up the Movement" Award at the 2023 American Democracy Summit, the premier democracy reform conference in the nation.