Ariel Hayes

Ariel Hayes is the Executive Director of the Youth Success Project (YSP), a youth-led organization focused on centering and uplifting the voices and lived experience of young people who have experienced homelessness in New Hampshire. Ariel had her own brief experience with homelessness at 22 years old, and has been working in the youth homelessness field since. She led the YSP through a period of major growth, co-authored the Balance of State Continuum of Care’s Coordinated Community Plan to end youth homelessness, co-led the state’s Youth Count efforts, developed provider trainings with youth members of the YSP, and much more. Ariel is passionate about shifting power to those most affected by social inequities and working with allies to be good partners in that work.