Kia Hall Hayes joined the Quattrone Center after working as a staff attorney at Innocence Project New Orleans. While at IPNO, Kia spearheaded successful campaigns resulting in legislation requiring Louisiana law enforcement to use science-based practices for eyewitness identification procedures, giving judges discretion to admit expert eyewitness identification testimony, allowing prisoners to seek DNA testing, and streamlining the payment process for exonerees granted wrongful conviction compensation.|Prior to working at IPNO, Kia worked for six years as a newspaper reporter-first at the Providence Journal and then at the Times-Picayune-before enrolling at UCLA School of Law.