Layla Crater (she/her) joined Change Consulting as a Communications Coordinator in 2016, helping drive PR and media relations for changemakers, before moving into an operations role.  Her previous experience in media relations forms the foundation of all she does as the agency’s first Chief of Staff.

Previously, she served as Account Executive and Showroom Manager for a boutique PR agency in San Francisco, managing media relations and providing operational support for some of the Bay Area’s most beloved brands, such as Blue Bottle Coffee and Timbuk2. She first discovered her passion for working for social change and nonprofit communications while working in documentary film production as a Production Manager for a PBS Frontline Film, “END GAME: AIDS in Black America.”

Layla holds an MBA from Mills College’s Lorry I. Lokey School of Business and BA from UC Davis in Communications with an emphasis in American Studies. Layla has lived in the East Bay since 2011, the ideal place to explore her passion for independent grocery stores.