Hayes Gardner

Hayes Gardner is a business reporter for The Baltimore Banner. He previously wrote for The Baltimore Sun, the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Ames (Iowa) Tribune, covering a mix of sports, news and business. He was a member of a Courier-Journal team recognized as Pulitzer Prize finalists in 2021. Born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky, Hayes graduated from Grinnell College in Iowa and then served two years as an AmeriCorps member at an education nonprofit in Oregon.