Michael Edison Hayden
Senior Investigative Reporter/Spokesperson, Intelligence Project, Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)
2022
Michael Edison Hayden serves as a Senior Investigative Reporter and Spokesperson for Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), where he publishes stories about online radicalization, social media influencers and authoritarianism. His work as an investigative reporter has also been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, National Geographic, and Los Angeles Times, among other publications. He is a three-time grantee of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis reporting and he authored Columbia University’s guide to OSINT.
At the Summit
The catalytic power of this Summit in bringing together those who are devoting their lives to pushing back and working to confront, understand and work towards solutions around hate in our society is a noble and difficult task. The Summit not only energized those who attended but led to connecting the dots in a global network of those doing this work. The stories of the victims of hate were painful to witness but their courage in coming forward was inspirational. Those who attended left energized with the hope that by working together solutions can be forged.
