Canne won a 2022 NPF Poverty Award.

Kayla Canne covers barriers to affordable housing for the Asbury Park Press in New Jersey as a Report for America corps member. Before joining the Press in June 2021, Canne wrote for her hometown daily newspaper, the Democrat & Chronicle in Rochester, New York, and for The Sun Chronicle, a publication in Attleboro, Massachusetts. Canne is a proud Coda (child of deaf adults) and was a deaf education volunteer with the Peace Corps in Ghana for nearly two years until the pandemic forced her evacuation in March 2020. Prior to that, she was the lead enterprise reporter and assignment editor at The Sun Chronicle, where she cultivated a passion for narrative, human-first storytelling, and helped editors launch a new weekend edition as they shifted to a six-day paper. Canne’s work earned her two awards from the New England Newspaper & Press Association. She is a journalism graduate of Boston University’s College of Communication. Her work at the Press is funded by Report for America and a grant from the Jules L. Plangere Jr. Family Foundation.