Justin Hayes

Director of Communications

Justin Hayes is the Director of Communications at The Future of Free Speech. He was previously Director of Research at CounterPoint Strategies, where he provided crisis and issue management solutions to leading private equity firms, Dow 30 companies, trade associations, private industrial firms, and prominent public figures. Before that, he was a marketing manager at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, where he helped promote graduate student fellowships and scholarly research. He holds an M.A. in Mass Communication from the University of Florida and a B.S. in Political Science from Kennesaw State University. Justin has always been passionate about promoting free speech, working as a graduate research fellow with the Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project during his time at the University of Florida and regularly writing about the topic in his spare time.