In 2022, she ran as a democrat for New York State Assembly in New York's 75th State Assembly district[2][3] (Chelsea, Hell's Kitchen, Columbus Circle, portions of Midtown and the Upper West Side).

[4] She started her career in France as a journalist and producer for CAPA French TV Press Agency, before joining the TF1 newsroom.

From 1997 to 2002, she covered current affairs with in-depth stories on topics ranging from women in the Ku Klux Klan, teen pregnancy,[5] fundamentalist Mormon polygamist sects in Utah, Amish[6] sects in Pennsylvania or the rise of SWAT teams in the US.

In 2000, she was a guest speaker at the Shadow Convention[7] in Philadelphia, where her documentary War Zone was featured.

[9] Between 2007 and 2009, Layla Demay CoSigne with Laure Watrin Three documentaries Les guinea pigs as part of the program Le Club des Nouveaux Explorers, the thematic travel documentary series broadcast on Canal+ and presented by Maïtena Biraben, then by Diego Buñuel.