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Helen Hayes is a Fellow at the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, where her work sits at the intersection of AI, digital rights, and democratic participation.
A pioneer in new participatory approaches to tech policymaking, she designed and led Canada鈥檚 first national youth assembly on digital rights and safety (2023), and Gen(Z)AI, Canada鈥檚 youth consultation on AI and online harms (2025-2026).
Hayes is both a 2026 recipient of Forbes 30 Under 30 (Education) and The Peak鈥檚 Emerging Leader award for this work, as well as for her teaching in undergraduate and graduate programs at McGill University. Her research has been published in the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, Interfaces, Election Law Journal, and Lecture Notes in Computer Science, among others. She is the co-author of Voting Online: Technology and Democracy in Municipal Elections (McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press, 2024), and a co-editor of Regulating Digital (University of Toronto Press, 2026) and Trust and Trustworthiness: Evaluations of Online Voting (McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press, forthcoming).