Kayla Parker

Kayla Parker is Executive Assistant for the Religious Institute. A graduate of The George Washington University, she has worked extensively with international and interfaith organizations. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Religion and International Affairs, with concentrations in Islam and the Middle East.

Her most recent internationally focused work was in the summer of 2008, as information technology assistant to the CIO of Mercy Corps. She also served as an intern at the Embassy of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, where she reported on current events in the Middle East to domestic and foreign government officials.

While studying abroad in Morocco during the 2007-2008 academic year, Parker took intensive Arabic courses while researching political and social issues in the Middle East and North Africa. She also conducted an independent study on a group that provides assistance to unwed mothers. Her studies were based out of Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane and the School for International Training in the capital, Rabat.

Her interfaith work began at the InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington in 2006, and continued at the Sikh Coalition on Religion and Education. She was also an intern at the Pluralism Project at Harvard University in the summer of 2007, where her research focused on the Sikh communities in the Greater Boston area.