Her Story
About Kayla
Kayla Dones is an investigative field reporter who founded her business, The Protagonist. The company works with nonprofits and corporate clients to uncover valuable information happening in real time. This includes field reporting and the human intelligence side of operations through Humant, where she and her team go into the field rather than relying solely on desk work. Her journey in this field started around 11 years ago after taking an online course called Change Media University, created by journalist Luke Rakowski to teach people how to become citizen journalists. From there, she worked her way up and was hired as lead investigative journalist for James O'Keefe, founder of Project Veritas. In that role, she ran multi-state investigations during the border crisis covering California, Arizona, Texas, and New York, with the resulting content featured in a film now on the Tucker Carlson Network.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Kayla
01What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
If you're drawn to something, lean into it with all your heart. But also make sure to take care of yourself along the way, because physical health, mental health is so important to be able to sustain whatever it is that you're doing.
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