Stacey Boyd
Business & Social Impact Expert
Stacey Boyd is an entrepreneur and social-impact business founder best known for building companies that combine commerce with giving back. She earned her MBA and a Master's in Public Policy from Harvard, and began her career as a teacher and school principal. Her ventures include Savvy Source, an online community to help parents navigate their children's early education, and Schoola, an ecommerce company that sells new and used clothing while directing a portion of proceeds back to school programs like music, foreign language, and physical education. In 2017, she founded Olivela, a luxury fashion retailer built around social giving — the company launched with just 12 brands and has since grown to include more than 400, supporting over 30 charitable partners, with 20% of each purchase going toward their work. The idea for Olivela came to her at a refugee camp while photographing Malala Yousafzai and a group of young women in distance-learning programs. Boyd serves on the board of the National Council for Teacher Quality and has advised PBS on its education programming. She has been named one of the World Economic Forum's 100 Global Leaders for Tomorrow, and her work has been featured in outlets including CNN, PBS, the Today Show, the Wall Street Journal, Wired, the New Yorker, USA Today and the Washington Post.
