Hayden Davis

Hayden Davis is the Redstone Public Service Fellow at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). He focuses on protecting the privacy rights of consumers, holding tech platforms accountable for harmful design choices, and government databases.

Hayden received his B.A. from Emory University and his J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School. During law school, he was Executive Managing Editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, sat on the Submissions Committee for the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, and directed the Harvard Prison Legal Assistance Project. He was also 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 Harvard’s Roger Fisher and Frank E.A. Sander Prize.

Hayden previously served as head of public policy at the Georgia Innocence Project, where he advanced reforms to better identify and correct wrongful convictions. He also founded and leads the Accurate Justice Project, an organization that works to improve the use of law enforcement forensic databases. He is a member of the Georgia and Virginia Bars.

Areas of expertise: Platform governance and accountability, consumer privacy, the First Amendment, government databases.