Hayes Davis

As Park’s new Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), Hayes’s primary goal will be to learn about and integrate himself into the Park community while collaborating with faculty, students, parents/guardians as he develops and executes Park’s DEI curriculum.

He will also create and facilitate DEI programming, workshops, and training initiatives for students, teachers, parents, alumni, and Trustees. A member of the senior administrative team, Hayes will also collaborate with fellow senior administrators to help fulfill the Park mission.

Before joining the Park community, Hayes was the Director of the Office of Institutional Equity, Justice, and Belonging (IEJB) at Sandy Spring Friends School (SSFS); he joined SSFS in 2021 as the Assistant Director of IEJB and taught one English class in their Upper School.

Prior to his tenure at SSFS, Hayes taught Upper School English at Sidwell Friends School (13 years) where he also served as the Upper School Coordinator for Equity, Justice & Community. Hayes began his career as an English teacher at Georgetown Day School, where he taught for nine years.

In addition to his significant experience as a teacher and DEI leader in independent schools, Hayes is also a published poet. His first book of poetry is called Let Our Eyes Linger; and he is working on a second manuscript. His poems have been anthologized in several collections, and has also appeared in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series, New England Review, Poet Lore, Gargoyle, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, and other journals. During the 2023–24 school year, Hayes served as the Howard County Poetry & Literature Society Writer-in-Residence, and in 2022 he received a Maryland State Arts Council Independent Artist Award.

Hayes earned his B.A. in English Writing from the University of Pittsburgh and his M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Maryland, College Park.