Vice President, Advocacy and Outreach

Sandra Boyd joined Achieve as vice president of advocacy and outreach in September 2006. In this capacity, Ms. Boyd plays a key role in making college- and career-readiness a national priority so that all high school graduates are prepared for success.

Before joining Achieve, Ms. Boyd was vice president of human resources policy for the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM). There, she served as a senior advocate before Congress and federal agencies on workplace issues, including education, training, competitiveness, immigration, labor and employment. In that capacity, Ms. Boyd, served in leadership roles in a number of broad-based coalitions, including serving as chair of Compete America and the FLECS coalition. Prior to working for NAM, she served as assistant general counsel to the Labor Policy Association, an association of Fortune 500 senior human resources executives. Ms. Boyd has also practiced law at Epstein, Becker and Green and has served as an adjunct professor at George Washington University National Law Center.

Ms. Boyd is a frequent speaker on education reform and human resources issues and has written extensively on these topics. In addition to her role as an author and editor in various Achieve publications, she co-authored the Employers Guide to the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Fair Labor Standards Handbook for States, Local Governments and Schools and the law school text Cases and Material on Federal Labor Standards (2nd Edition). She also has contributed to the American Bankers Association Human Resource Compliance Manual, State by State Guide to Human Resources Law, and the Employers Guide to Controlling Sexual Harassment, published by the Thompson Publishing Group.

Ms. Boyd currently serves on the National Advisory Commission on Workplace Flexibility and is a former board member of the National Immigration Forum.

Ms. Boyd obtained her J.D. from George Washington University and her B.A. magna cum laude from San Diego State University.