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Kevin D. Reyes is Senior OSINT Specialist at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), where he leads methodology for open-source investigations and researches online hate, extremism, conspiracy theories, and disinformation. He also teaches open-source investigations as an adjunct instructor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.A recognized digital investigator, Reyes was previously director of research and intelligence at a consulting firm, where he conducted and managed hundreds of open-source and undercover investigations into illicit trade and transnational crime for Fortune 500 clients. Some of these investigations led to landmark civil cases as well as criminal prosecution by agencies within the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security, among others.He also worked in law library management at several law schools, and in international criminal law research at Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights in Washington DC and at the Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley School of Law.Reyes is highly engaged in the development of the OSINT field. While at Berkeley's Human Rights Center in 2016, he helped launch the first university-based, open-source investigations lab of its kind to discover and verify human rights violations and potential war crimes. He was consulting editor of 'Digital Witness: Using Open Source Information for Human Rights Investigation, Documentation, and Accountability' (Oxford University Press, 2020), the first book of its kind to teach the methods and best-practice of open-source research featuring contributions from other leaders in the field. He contributed to early work that led to the Berkeley Protocol on Digital Open Source Investigations (2022), the first-ever manual on the effective use of open-source information in international criminal and human rights investigations, published by the United Nations.Born and raised in Southeast Los Angeles, Reyes is the son of working-class Mexican immigrants and a first-generation graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. His work has advised and supported the work of organizations such as the National Security Council; the European Commission; the US Senate Committees on Finance and Foreign Relations; and numerous federal, state, and local law enforcement and regulatory agencies. His research and expertise have also been showcased in a variety of media outlets including ABC News, The Hill, Politico, PolitiFact, Vice, and NHK.

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