Kevin D. Reyes leads open-source intelligence (OSINT) at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) and is an expert digital investigator, digital ethnographer, and digital safety specialist whose work has covered a wide range of harms, including global crime, hate and extremism, human rights abuses and atrocities, information manipulation and conspiracy theories, and terrorism and mass violence. His work has led to the prosecution of transnational criminals and violent extremists, multimillion dollar lawsuits, takedowns of online disinformation and scam networks, and EU sanctions.

At USC Annenberg, he co-founded and leads the OSINT Reporting Lab, where he teaches students how to combine cutting-edge digital forensics and traditional investigative reporting to uncover stories, expose wrongdoing, and deconstruct important events. The lab has partnered with newsrooms and human rights organizations, and has supported reporting that received the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting.

As a senior investigations and intelligence consultant, he has worked on online and undercover investigations into illicit trade and transnational crime for Fortune 500 clients, including major brands in luxury fashion and pharmaceuticals. Some of these investigations led to landmark lawsuits, while others were investigated in partnership with federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies.

He helped launch the world’s first university-based open-source investigations lab at the Human Rights Center at Berkeley Law in 2016. He was consulting editor for Digital Witness: Using Open Source Information for Human Rights Investigation, Documentation, and Accountability (Oxford University Press, 2020) and contributed to early work that led to the Berkeley Protocol on Digital Open Source Investigations, the UN’s manual for open-source investigations for global justice.

Born and raised in Southeast Los Angeles, Reyes is the son of working-class Mexican immigrants and a first-generation graduate of UC Berkeley. He remains committed to mentoring and uplifting aspiring digital investigators, especially those from underrepresented backgrounds.