Kevin D. Reyes is an expert digital investigator leading USC Annenberg’s curriculum on open-source intelligence (OSINT). He teaches “Digital Investigations I: Introduction to OSINT Reporting” (JOUR 556) in the fall and “Digital Investigations II: OSINT Reporting Lab” (JOUR 557) in the spring. 

Reyes is a 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 was previously a senior investigations and intelligence consultant, where he worked on hundreds of online and undercover investigations into illicit trade and transnational crime for Fortune 500 clients, including major brands in apparel and luxury fashion, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, and e-commerce. Some of these investigations led to landmark civil decisions in federal court, while others were investigated in partnership with law enforcement agencies in the Departments of Justice (DOJ), Homeland Security (DHS), and Health and Human Services (HHS), among many other state and local agencies.

In 2016, he helped launch the world’s first university-based open-source investigations lab at the Human Rights Center at Berkeley Law, which trains students to discover and verify human rights violations and potential war crimes. 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 (2022), the first-ever manual for OSINT in international criminal and human rights investigations, published by the United Nations.

He has taught OSINT at NYU School of Law, University of Amsterdam, and several journalism organizations. 

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.