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 advancing The American Diploma Project (ADP) agenda with states, the business community and other key constituencies.

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 lobbyist before Congress and federal agencies on workplace issues, including education, training, immigration, labor and employment law. Prior to working for NAM, she served as assistant general counsel to the Labor Policy Association, an association of more than 250 U.S. companies represented by their senior human resources executives. Ms. Boyd also practiced labor and government contract law with 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 legislative activity and labor and human resources issues and has written extensively on these topics. Among the publications she co-authored are 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 obtained her J.D. from George Washington University and her B.A. magna cum laude from San Diego State University.