Kyah Rayne Foundation

The Kyah Rayne Foundation's (KRF) mission is to advance food allergy awareness, education, and epinephrine availability.

The number one reason anaphylaxis causes death is because the life-saving medication,
epinephrine, was not given in a timely manner.

The Kyah Rayne Foundation's (KRF) was founded in 2019 after Lisa Cohen, CEO, lost her
daughter, Kyah Rayne, to peanut allergy-induced anaphylaxis. Kyah died because no
epinephrine auto injector was available to save her. Lisa has since dedicated her life to making sure that other families will not need to experience a similar traumatic loss. The mission remains to increase availability of epinephrine auto injectors (EAI) in public settings and promote food allergy education and epinephrine administration. We can save lives.

Testimonials

KRF has received overwhelming support from diverse stakeholders. Following are
comments we have received about the groundbreaking work we have done:

• Dustin Williams, Pima County School Superintendent: "Kyah Rayne Foundation has
revamped, revised and reinvigorated the School Surveillance Medication Program
(SSMP). As Pima County School Superintendent, it has been exciting and encouraging
to see KRF's advancement of food allergy training and SSMP implementation. Thank
you for your great contribution to school health and safety programming."

• Kimberly Ivich, Maricopa County Department of Public Health: "Kyah Rayne
Foundation has been our 'Angels of the SSMP'. Maricopa County Department of
Public Health has been able to increase our School Surveillance Medication Program
significantly this past year with the Kyah Rayne Foundation epinephrine training
program and Outreach to all Arizona schools. MCDPH is proud of our partnership
with the Kyah Rayne Foundation and their commitment to public health and safety in
our schools."

• Amanda Burke, Center for the Future of Arizona: "I'm honored to work with the
Kyah Rayne Foundation in support of its mission to advance food allergy awareness
and education. This past year the Foundation has made available Kyah's EPICourse,
which is providing quality critical training to help people quickly and safely respond
to food allergy emergencies. As a result, many schools across the state are using the
training and stocking epinephrine auto-injectors to save lives. As a mom of a second
grader with life threatening food allergies, I know how important this is and am so
grateful to the Kyah Rayne Foundation for the work they do every day."

• Cindy Bauer - Medical Director & Section Chief, Allergy and Immunology, Phoenix
Children's Hospital: "Food allergies have been increasing in prevalence, affecting
both children and adults. It is essential that our awareness as a community does as
well, particularly in settings such as schools and restaurants. We are fortunate in
Phoenix to have the Kyah Rayne Foundation which acts as a voice for those with food
allergy and aims to increase access to life-saving Epinephrine Auto-Injectors."