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Harry Boyte

Senior Scholar in Public Work Philosophy at the Sabo Center; Expert on Civic Engagement & Democratic Participation

Harry Boyte
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Democracy, Educational Motivational, Government, Political, Social Media
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Harry Boyte Biography

Harry Boyte is the founder of Public Achievement, a theory-based practice of citizen organizing to do public work for the common good that is used in schools, universities, and communities across the United States and in more than a dozen countries. Boyte has been an architect of a "public work" approach to civic engagement and democracy promotion, a conceptual framework on citizenship that has gained worldwide recognition for its theoretical innovations and its practical effectiveness.

Since coming to the Institute in 1987, Boyte has worked with a variety of partners in Minnesota, nationally, and internationally on community development, citizenship education, and civic renewal.

Currently, Boyte is head of the Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship at Augsburg College. He also serves on the board of Imagining America, a consortium of colleges and universities whose mission is to strengthen the public role and democratic purposes of the humanities, arts, and design.

For several months each year, Boyte resides in South Africa, where is working with colleagues to analyze models of citizen democracy across Africa. Working with the Institute for Democracy in South Africa, he co-directed Lessons from the Field, an in-depth look at what has happened to South African democracy since the election of President Nelson Mandela in 1994.

Boyte served as national coordinator of the New Citizenship (1993–1995), a broad nonpartisan effort to bridge the citizen-government gap. He presented New Citizenship findings to President Clinton, Vice President Gore and other administration leaders at a 1995 Camp David seminar on the future of democracy, a presentation that helped to shape Clinton's "New Covenant" State of the Union that year.

Boyte has also served as a senior advisor to the National Commission on Civic Renewal, and as national associate of the Kettering Foundation. He has worked with a variety of foundations, nonprofit, educational, neighborhood, and citizen organizations concerned with community development, citizenship education, and civic renewal. In the 1960s, Boyte worked for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as a field secretary with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in the southern civil rights movement.

Boyte earned a doctorate degree in political and social thought from the Union Institute.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 03/05/2024.

Harry Boyte Speaking Topics

  • The Power and Relevance of Nonviolence

    In a time of growing violence and conflict, the constructive nonviolence of the civil rights movement, which I learned as a young field secretary for Martin Luther King, has renewed relevance and power.

  • What is Democracy?

    I learned in the civil rights movement as a young man a broad, dynamic view of democracy, not simply elections but the work of the people in every setting to improve communities and build a "more perfect union." Today, the meaning of democracy has dramatically shrunk and imprisons citizens in a narrow framework. We need to expand democracy's meaning dramatically.

  • Free Spaces: Where We Learn Democracy

    The great democratic movements that have moved the country forward have had their roots in "free spaces" where people of different views and backgrounds learn to talk with each other, respect each other, and work together. We need to multiply such spaces again.

  • Stories of Hope and Change

    Out of sight of the mainstream media, hundreds of communities are developing "civic muscle" to work on common problems and build a common future.

  • The Rosenwald Schools and Libraries Which Changed America

    In the dark days of segregation, Black communities built more than 5,000 schools and thousands of libraries, which educated the leaders of the Civil Rights movement.

Harry Boyte Videos

  • Rosenwald Project Webinar
    Rosenwald Project Webinar
  • Frontiers of Democracy 2015 - Harry Boyte
    Frontiers of Democracy 2015 - Harry Boyte
    Harry Boyte speaks at Tisch College's Frontiers of Democracy conference.
  • The Changing World of Work | Dr. Harry Boyte
    The Changing World of Work | Dr. Harry Boyte
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Harry Boyte Books

  • Awakening Democracy through Public Work: Pedagogies of Empowerment
    Awakening Democracy through Public Work: Pedagogies of Empowerment

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Harry Boyte is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as The Power and Relevance of Nonviolence, What is Democracy?, Free Spaces: Where We Learn Democracy , Stories of Hope and Change and The Rosenwald Schools and Libraries Which Changed America. The estimated speaking fee range to book Harry Boyte for your event is $5,000 - $10,000. Harry Boyte generally travels from Minneapolis, MN, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Ned Ryun, Adam Kinzinger, Janeese Lewis George, Waikinya Clanton and Albert Chanthaboury. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Harry Boyte for an upcoming live or virtual event.

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