Kaylyn studies social policy and legal studies at Northwestern University. She is the 2024 Illinois Truman Scholar, was a Gilman Scholar to Ecuador, and appeared on GLAAD's 2021 list of 20 Under 20 LGBTQ+ Activists. At Northwestern, Kaylyn is co-president of Northwestern's Undergraduate Prison Education Partnership was a Debarry Civic Scholar, a member of the inaugural Emerging Scholars cohort, and will travel to Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia this winter on an International Senior Thesis Grant from the Buffet Institute for Global Affairs to conduct archival legal research on international criminal law. Kaylyn has testified in front of Illinois General Assembly to help unanimously pass a bill to reform sexual assault law. She was appointed by Governor J.B. Pritzker to serve on the Illinois Council on Women and Girls, where she advises the Gender-based Violence Committee and serves as the chair of the Academic and Economic Opportunity Committee. Last summer, Kaylyn received the highest number of votes to the National Organization for Victim Advocacy's (NOVA) Board of Directors, becoming the youngest in history to do so. With NOVA, she oversees over $4 million in victim advocacy funding and advises a $750,000 Department of Justice grant to force the first victim advocacy fellowship to serve historically marginalized communities across ten minority serving institutions. Kaylyn serves on the advisory board for The Harbour, a youth homeless shelter, where she won a $25,000 service impact grant from the Allstate Foundation. She interned with KAN-WIN, a nonprofit for Asian survivors of domestic violence, and worked for the White House Initiative on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders in spring of 2024.

In the summer of 2023, Kaylyn worked at the US Special Envoy for Afghan Women, Girls, and Human Rights. She is a Women of Color Advancing Peace, Security, and Conflict Resolution Pipeline Fellow and worked in the economic office of the US Diplomatic Mission to South Africa in Pretoria in summer 2024. She is a three-time national finalist qualifier for the National Forensics Association Championships and competes in Dramatic Interpretation and Poetry Speaking events. From keynotes to panels, she has spoken across the country about her experiences as a survivor of domestic and sexual violence.