Dylan Hayre is the National Advocacy and Campaigns Director at the Fines and Fees Justice Center. In this role, he leads the National Advocacy and Campaigns team, working alongside brilliant colleagues and coalition allies across the country to help build and sustain the movement for impactful fines and fees reform. Dylan also works closely with core national partners who are trying to to create a justice system that treats individuals fairly, ensures community safety and prosperity, and is funded equitably.

Prior to joining FFJC, Dylan served as a Director of Criminal Justice at Arnold Ventures. There, he led a team that created and helped execute dozens of policy reform, implementation, and research projects across the country, focused primarily on transforming community supervision and maximizing access to economic opportunity for people with criminal records. Previously, Dylan served in the ACLU’s Justice Division, where he led their advocacy efforts on clemency and death penalty repeal, and supported state-level work on supervision reform and reentry. And prior to that, he served as the Senior Policy Advisor at JustLeadershipUSA, where he led the organization’s policy analysis and helped build, advised on, or managed groundbreaking justice reform campaigns across the country.

Dylan began his career as a prosecutor in his home state of Massachusetts and went on to manage his own criminal defense practice before joining a Boston-area firm. He has also served on or advised several candidate- and issue-based political campaigns at the local, state, and national levels.

Dylan earned his law degree, master’s in education, and undergraduate degree in mathematics all from Boston College.