Hal Boyd is the chief of staff to the president of BYU. He previously served as an associate professor and director of public scholarship in BYU’s School of Family Life and as the editor of the Deseret News. Boyd also worked as the special assistant to the president at Eastern Kentucky University.
Since 2018, Boyd has been a fellow of BYU's Wheatley Institute, and his writings on family, religion, higher education and constitutional government have appeared in a variety of venues, including The New York Times, The Atlantic and The National Review. Boyd is a graduate of Yale Law School and BYU, where he earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy with honors.
His remarks will be broadcast live on BYUtv, BYUtv.org. Video, text and audio are archived on speeches.byu.edu