JOHN P. BOYER
Director of Congressional Relations
John Boyer is the Director of Congressional Relations at the Center for the Study of the Presidency, a non-profit, non-partisan public policy institution in Washington, DC. In this capacity, John is the Center's primary contact with Members of Congress and their staffs on Center initiatives that would benefit from Congressional attention. John educates and advances Center initiatives on Capitol Hill, as well as monitors current legislative and political activity for CSP.
John also directs the Center's initiative on civility and inclusive leadership in governance. John engages and develops the National Committee to Unite a Divided America, a diverse group of American leaders that have signed the Declaration on Civility and Inclusive Leadership.
Currently, he engages Members of Congress for the Mount Vernon Compact, a Congressional effort that builds upon CSP's efforts in ethics and leadership education as well as civility and inclusive leadership. John continues to build support for the Center's homeland security projects, the Foundation for International Understanding, the Afghanistan Study Group, and the Agenda 2008 initiative.
In 2006, John provided Congressional program support for the bipartisan Iraq Study Group (ISG), co-sponsored by CSP, the United States Institute of Peace, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), and the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University.
For the past three years, John has also served as a Presidential Fellows Mentor. Each year he assists two Fellows as they research and write a paper on an aspect of the American Presidency. The Presidential Fellows Program is composed of 85 undergraduate and graduate students from across the country who meet in Washington, DC, twice a year to present their papers and become immersed in public policy.
John joined the Center in the fall of 2004 as a Research Assistant after interning for the Abshire-Inamori Leadership Academy (AILA) at CSIS and the Richard Lounsbery Foundation, a grant-making foundation that funds projects in science education and public policy.
John graduated magna cum laude from The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, with a B.A. and Departmental Honors in Political Science. His honors thesis explored the psychology of terrorism and the politics of jihad in Egypt and Pakistan.
Contact John at 202-872-9800 or via e-mail.
