User:Steve Boyd

Steve Boyd is the Principal at the Boyd Strategy Group. As a management and public affairs strategist and entrepreneur, he has managed organizations, programs and campaigns addressing economic development, clean energy, educational opportunity, and social justice for over 16 years. During the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, he was a Co-Founder and National Co-Chair of Clean Tech and Green Business Leaders for Obama (CT4-O) and Chaired communications/media & messaging for the effort. He is a co-founder of Renewable Energy for America PAC (RenewPAC) and ReCharge America, a home and neighborhood energy savings initiative launched in collaboration with ecoAmerica.

As a social entrepreneur, Boyd was co-developer of the Hoop Dreams Scholarship Fund, an urban college access mentoring program, and has worked on the development of a variety of social venture, technology, and public affairs/new media start-ups in recent years including Biodiesel University and Foundation for Renewable Energy Education, Americans for Clean Energy, and ClimateLab.org. As part of his work advising entrepreneurs, Boyd managed a project housed at the Northern Virginia Technology Council providing support to technology and social entrepreneurs in the Greater Washington Region, arranging partnerships with area universities, incubation and venture capital related groups to sustain the program.

Boyd has worked as a reporter covering politics and education at the News Hour with Jim Lehrer, and during the Clinton Administration served as Assistant Press Secretary at the White House.  He has also worked in other roles including at Housing and Urban Development and at the Democratic National Committee. He has worked on a range of Congressional, State and National political campaigns since the early 1990s. Current and recent clients of Boyd Strategy Group include Citizens Global Studio, Ecofusion, Voices for America's Children, and California Strategies.

Boyd is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University, where he studied Biology/Environmental Science, Economics, Political Science, and International Agriculture.