Richard Hayes

Richard Hayes is executive director of the Center for Genetics and Society, in Oakland, California, a nonprofit public affairs organization supporting responsible social governance of the new human genetic technologies.  He previously served as national director of volunteer development, and assistant political director for the Sierra Club, and as Chair of the Sierra Club's Global Warming Campaign Committee. Mr. Hayes has worked as a political organizer for a wide range of environmental and social and economic justice organizations. He is completing a doctoral dissertation at the University of California at Berkeley. 

Genetic Technologies - the Radical Revision of Human Existence and the Natural World