
Equal Justice Under Law – Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
Washington, D.C.
As a Redstone Public Service Fellow, Hayden will work on litigation protecting consumers’ rights and holding tech companies accountable to ensure that their products advance the public interest rather than causing harm or worsening inequality. He will be co-hosted by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) —a nonprofit advancing privacy and the public interest in the information age— and Equal Justice Under Law —an impact litigation organization dedicated to combatting cycles of poverty and challenging economic inequality in the criminal system.
Before law school, Hayden served as head of public policy at the Georgia Innocence Project, where he advanced reforms to better identify and correct wrongful convictions. He was the principal drafter of Georgia’s Wrongful Conviction and Incarceration Compensation Act, which provides exonerees with resources to rebuild their lives after release from prison.
In law school, Hayden led the Prison Legal Assistance Project, representing incarcerated individuals in prison disciplinary and parole proceedings. He also served as Executive Managing Editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, sat on the Submissions Committee of the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, and was a policy fellow with the AI Student Safety Team. His writing on access to courts has been published in the Review of Litigation and received the Roger Fisher and Frank E.A. Sander Prize. He spent his summers working on civil rights and consumer protection litigation and is deeply grateful to Harvard and the Redstone Fellowship for allowing him to bring these commitments together in service of the public good.