Home  About  Chapters  Policy  Publications  Join  Jobs  Donate  Blog  Students mingle with health care professionals and hill staffers at Roosevelt Rx briefing, Hart Senate building, September 19th 2008 News from the National Office Post-Election Center TI Launched Roosevelt LiveBlogs the Presidential Debate On Campus Midwest Regional Fall Policy Workshop Blum speaks at Vermont Campus Compact conference Coverage of the Johns Hopkins Chapter Launch > More "Progress has brought us both unbounded opportunities and unbridled difficulties. Thus the measure of our civilization will not be that we have done much, but what we have done with that much." — Teddy Roosevelt    Crystal M Boyd School: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Member of: Core Chapters and Staff Center on Education Socioeconomic Diversity in Higher Education Contact info: Contact Email:  crystalmboyd(AT)gmail.com Cellphone:  806-470-0819 Policy interests: Diversity, race, and opportunity, Education, Environment, Nonprofits and philanthropy, Political strategy, Poverty and social justice, Religion, Social policy, Sustainability, The media, Women, gender, and feminism Crystal Boyd is a third year student at UNLV studying English and film with a minor in Communications.  She is in charge of Communications. Crystal discovered her passion for politics at 15 (2001) when she attended a political protest on the behalf of the Black-Tailed Prairie Dog and was subsequently the only one not arrested when a riot broke out. For the rest of her high school career, she participated in the usual organizations and competed academically all over the state of Texas. She interned at several political organizations and became a columnist for her school and city newspapers. After three years of drifting through several causes and high school, she broke from her small town existence and moved to Las Vegas. What she was thinking, we may never know. Since then she has tried many different pursuits such as a character actress, a stand-up comedian, speechwriter, motivational speaker, screenwriter, and receptionist. She was mediocre at most of her pursuits, except for being a truly terrible receptionist. Crystal believes that the Roosevelt Institution can be a successful organization at her university and it could change the notoriously apathetic and uninvolved UNLV landscape. She believes that this is a vital and crucial organization for the future of our country. She believes that the current iGeneration needs to create a political revolution to guarantee its survival. When not in class or working, she creates truly bad scultures, Also, she writes on her blog and short stories, often based on her deranged southern family. To relax she plays the bongo drums terribly,  plays with her dogs, and reads popular fiction that has no redeeming value except entertainment. Also, she continues to focus on her true love, her screenplay.    The Roosevelt Institution is a nonpartisan, nonprofit national think tank devoted to bringing students' policy ideas to the policy process. The opinions expressed on this site are exclusively those of its members. DC Headquarters: Roosevelt Institution / 2100 M St NW Suite 610 / Washington, DC 20037 || (202) 833-1359