Hayden is a Senior Staff Attorney with the LCCRSF Asylum Program. He represents low- and no-income community members in asylum and other humanitarian cases before the San Francisco Immigration Court and Asylum Office, state and federal petitions for Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS), and U visas for survivors of violence. Hayden also co-counsels and supervises Asylum Program cases placed with pro bono counsel from the local private bar. He serves as an Attorney of the Day with the San Francisco Immigration Court, and organizes with LCCRSF’s sister non-profits to advance immigrants’ rights throughout the Bay Area. From 2022-24, Hayden worked as a Staff Attorney with the LCCRSF Asylum Program. 

As a Justice Catalyst Fellow (2020-22), Hayden co-created and – led the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) Separated Family collaborative with the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (ASAP) to empower, secure counsel, and seek reparations for hundreds of asylum-seeker families forcibly separated under the Trump administration’s Zero Tolerance policies. He filed the first separated-family FTCA case in the Northern District of California. Hayden litigated the Zepeda Rivas COVID-19 habeas class action and a group habeas seeking improved detention conditions and the release for individuals detained by ICE in northern and central California. He also served as class counsel in Doe v. Wolf (D. Ariz.) to secure improvements to horrific and unconstitutional Border Patrol detention conditions in Tucson, Arizona.  

Hayden is admitted to the State Bar of California, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He holds his JD from Yale Law School, and his MA in Latin American Studies and BAs in International Relations and Classics from Stanford University. Hayden is a proudly queer Chicanx/Latinx first-generation college and law school graduate raised in the Coachella Valley. He currently lives in Oakland.