Logan de La Barre-Hays is a Congressional staffer with a decade of experience shaping federal policy in emergency management, public assistance, and social safety net programs. She currently serves on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, where she provides strategic guidance across a broad portfolio of jurisdictional issues. Her work in bicameral cross-committee negotiations resulted in the successful inclusion of Economic Development Administration reauthorization and public building reform initiatives in the Thomas R. Carper Water Resources Development Act of 2024 (P.L.118-272).
Logan previously was Legislative Director for Congressman Garret Graves, leading policy development and legislative strategy on a wide range of state and national priorities. Notably, she spearheaded the successful effort to repeal the Windfall Elimination Provision and Government Pension Offset through the Social Security Fairness Act (P.L. 118-273) —landmark reforms that broke a four-decade legislative impasse and delivered long-awaited retirement relief to public servants nationwide. Her congressional experience also includes serving as a Legislative Aide and Speechwriter for Senator John Kennedy, where she advised on banking, trade, foreign affairs, and related policy areas.
Logan’s academic background centers on international politics, intellectual history, and the Middle East. She graduated with distinction from the M.A./M.Sc. program in International and World History. In addition to her dissertation, which was supervised by Professor Susan G. Pedersen and Professor Kirsten E. Schulze, she was invited to present a paper on "International Broadcasting and Public Diplomacy in the Global War on Terror: 1991-2010" at conferences on soft power in Beijing and Istanbul. A summa cum laude graduate of the Louisiana State University Honors College, she completed B.A. degrees in International Studies and Political Science with a concentration in Middle Eastern Studies. Her honors thesis, “Western Media Discourse on the ‘Arab Spring,’” examined the linguistic framing of regional uprisings in Western media under the direction of Dr. Touria Khannous.
A two-time Critical Language Scholarship recipient, Logan studied Arabic in Tangier, Morocco, and Amman, Jordan, as well as at SOAS University of London.
