Kayla Yvonne Calkin

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Kayla Yvonne Calkin holds a BA from Wellesley College and an MA from George Washington University. After college she joined the Hillary Clinton for President campaign in 2007 as an organizer—and she’s stayed on the campaign trail ever since. In 2018 she joined the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) as a federal campaign manager; in 2024 she took a leave of absence to become the Colorado State Director for the Harris-Walz campaign. Kayla lives in the City Park neighborhood in Denver, Colorado, with her long-term partner, Zac, their son, Locke, and a high-maintenance Westie named Lucy.

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Books by Kayla Yvonne Calkin

I Never Wanted to Live a Small Life

What I Learned from Cancer, Love, and the Fight for Our Future

By Kayla Yvonne Calkin

For fans of Between Two Kingdoms, a first-of-its kind millennial memoir exploring a young woman’s radical act of living big even when life seems determined to make her feel small.

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