Richard Hayes

Richard Hayes, PhD, was most recently visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley College of Natural Resources / Energy and Resources Group. He was founding executive director of the Center for Genetics and Society, serving in that role from 2001 through 2012. He has written and spoken widely concerning democratic governance of science and technology, economic inequality, and the need for social oversight of the new human biotechnologies. Hayes has been active in social and political organizing since his student days at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. In the 1970s he worked as a community organizer with a wide range of progressive organizations. In the early 1980s he served as executive director of the San Francisco Democratic Party and ran the electoral field operations for the late Congressmembers Phillip Burton and Sala Burton. From 1983 through 1992 he served on the national staff of the Sierra Club, first as assistant political director and then as national director of volunteer development. In the early 1990s he was chair of the Sierra Club's Global Warming Campaign Committee. In 1999 he began the work that lead to the creation of the Center for Genetics and Society in 2001. He holds a PhD in Energy and Resources from the University of California at Berkeley. His current website is For A Human Future .

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Publications

By Richard Hayes, TomPaine.com | 04.18.2005

Support for stem cell research is sweeping the country. Legislators in New York, Massachusetts, Illinois, Florida, Washington and perhaps a...

By Richard Hayes, San Francisco Chronicle | 04.04.2004

You wouldn't know it from the charged partisan debate here in the United States, but throughout the world new policies...

By Richard Hayes, TomPaine.com | 02.12.2004

In the late 1950s, soon after Watson and Crick had discovered DNA's structure, scientists began predicting that someday we'd be...

In the News

By Richard Hayes, New York Times | 05.01.2006

To the Editor:

Re "Democrats Hope to Divide G.O.P. Over Stem Cells" (news article, April 24):

I'm a lifelong Democrat...

By Richard Hayes, The Baltimore Sun | 01.17.2006

So now it's confirmed that South Korean stem cell king Hwang Woo Suk had been lying all along - not...

By Richard Hayes, TomPaine.com | 04.18.2005

Support for stem cell research is sweeping the country. Legislators in New York, Massachusetts, Illinois, Florida, Washington and perhaps a...

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