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William A. Keyes |
Camilo A. Parris, Jr. |
John T. Saunders
| Elijah Heyward III Bill Keyes hitch-hiked to Washington 33 years ago with a dream of participating in national politics and the public policy process. After working for a few years in the legislative and executive branches of government, he founded a national political action committee and a public affairs consulting business. Mr. Keyes is deeply involved in education. He was elected Secretary of the Board of Trustees of Landon School, an independent college preparatory school for boys, in Bethesda, Maryland. Additionally, Keyes is involved with several organizations that provide scholarships for deserving students. He serves on the National Selection Committee for the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation and serves as vice chairman of the board of directors of the Beta Nu Boule’ Educational Foundation. He is most active at the University of North Carolina, where he has served on the university’s Board of Visitors and the board of the Graduate School. He currently serves on the Board of Advisors of the top-ranked School of Journalism and Mass Communication and the Board of Directors of the North Carolina Journalism Foundation. He created a summer internship program in Washington, DC for journalism students and is also a founding Advisory Board member for UNC’s Leadership Institute. LI has taught public speaking, business etiquette and other skills to more than 400 students from underrepresented populations. Keyes also serves on an advisory committee for UNC’s Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs. Keyes has earned certificates from his participation in executive education programs at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC and is completing requirements for a PhD in Communication Studies. Keyes has served on the local boards of several charitable organizations, including the YMCA, Goodwill Industries, and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Currently, Keyes is a member of the Board of Directors of the African American Nonprofit Network, an organization dedicated to matching talented African American professionals with executive and governing board opportunities in metropolitan Washington’s nonprofit community. His most important work to date has been the establishment and direction of the Institute for Responsible Citizenship. This organization selects some of America’s best and brightest African American male college students for an intensive two-summer program in Washington. The scholars live together on a college campus, where they take rigorous academic courses, work at high level internships in their fields of interest, and meet with some of the nation’s most prominent public and private sector leaders. Among the Institute’s 100 alumni are one Rhodes Scholar, three Rhodes finalists, three Truman Scholars, one Woodrow Wilson Fellow, one Udall Scholar, more than a dozen Phi Beta Kappa Scholars, valedictorians, student body presidents, and the recipients of numerous other prestigious honors. Many of these scholars have overcome tremendous challenges to achieve academic success. In 2009, Keyes was honored to serve on the steering committee of the People’s Inaugural Project, a three-day event which included some of America’s neediest men, women and children in the festivities celebrating the Inauguration of President Barack Obama. Keyes was responsible for helping The Stafford Foundation identify more than 400 individuals from homeless shelters, battered women’s shelters, children’s hospitals, institutions for the physically handicapped, disabled veterans, and others who would not otherwise have had the opportunity to participate in the historic event. For his extensive work in education, especially the education and professional development of African American young men, Keyes was named the first national recipient of the Mac A. Stewart Distinguished Award for Service by the Todd A. Bell National Resource Center on the African American Male at Ohio State University. He has also been tapped for the Order of the Golden Fleece, the most prestigious honorary society at the University of North Carolina and the oldest university honor society of its kind in the nation. |
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