Law School
Boston University Law School

Undergraduate School
Vanderbilt University

Fellowship
The Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination in the Investigations Unit

Solomon Hayes is a 1L at Boston University School of Law. Born in Tokyo, Japan, Hayes spent most of his life in Mississippi. He received his BA in English at Vanderbilt University, Phi Beta Kappa, while writing a thesis on the presence of the prison industrial complex in literature. Hayes then spent three years as a paralegal at the Legal Aid Society in Nashville, Tennessee, helping tenants facing eviction in the Housing division, as well as survivors of domestic violence in the Family Law division. His time at the Legal Aid Society engendered a passion for public interest and social justice in order to serve vulnerable, marginalized communities. Hayes received BU’s ASPIRE (Antiracist Scholars for Progress, Innovation, and Racial Equity) Scholarship and will be the Co-President of BU’s Public Interest Law Society in the 2024-2025 academic year. This summer, Hayes will be working at the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination in the Investigations Unit.