Kayla Hughes
Project Manager
Kayla Hughes is a Project Manager at BRV's San Francisco office. Kayla has many years of experience visioning and executing inventive programs and events in public parks. She is responsible for the public programming at the new Salesforce Park atop the Salesforce Transit Center. The community has embraced Salesforce Park and the schedule of 20 weekly public programs are well-attended, giving San Franciscans a place to convene within the dense downtown district. Kayla has worked on a variety of other BRV projects, all over the country, influencing their designs and heading multiple programming plans.
Kayla focuses on understanding what makes a location special. With her background in Sociology, she knows the importance of empirical investigation when developing a plan for public use. She has worked in parks, plazas, parking lots, and small businesses to help them create programming and design practices that bring people together.
Prior to BRV, Kayla worked for Public Space Authority in San Jose, California, where she focused primarily on public space activation for different cities around the San Francisco Bay Area. She also worked at Friends of Hemming Park as the Event and Programming Director helping to revitalize the downtown core of Jacksonville, Florida.
Kayla graduated from the University of North Florida with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology.