An informal guy but he’s never gone by Steve.
Steven Goldstein is a civil rights leader who began his career as a television news producer, winning ten Emmys, before becoming a producer for Oprah Winfrey. He worked as a lawyer for the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, and as a communications director in the U.S. Senate, before becoming a strategist for leaders in politics, business, and entertainment. As a progressive voice on a wide range of national and international issues, Steven has appeared on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, CSPAN and in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian and other news organizations around the world.
Building on The Turn-On, Steven can evaluate the likeability of anyone in politics, business or entertainment – especially with regard to news events of national and international interest, such as impeachment.
Steven was the founding executive director of Garden State Equality, New Jersey’s statewide organization for LGBTQ equality. In a state known for its larger than life public personalities, he joined their ranks through his civil rights activism that put him in the news nearly every day. The Jewish Standard described Steven as “an irrepressible force, full of shtick and wit and outrage and fun, all at the same time.”
Filmmakers took notice. A 2007 documentary, “Freeheld,” chronicled Steven’s work at Garden State Equality. The following year, “Freeheld” wound up winning the Academy Award for Best Short Documentary. Hollywood then turned “Freeheld” into a full-length feature film with actors, released in 2015, in which Steven was played by Steve Carell.
Steven went on to serve as executive director of the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect, the U.S. civil and human rights organization, where he achieved national recognition as a take-no-prisoners opponent of President Trump. While others had a wait-and-see approach, Steven saw enough in the first months of the Trump Administration to tell Americans that Trump was abetting “white supremacy” and dehumanizing immigrants and refugees through escalating methods used by oppressive regimes.
Steven received his B.A. summa cum laude from Brandeis University; his M.P.P (Master in Public Policy) degree from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he was editor-in-chief of the public policy journal; his M.S. from the Columbia School of Journalism, and his J.D. from Columbia Law School. He has also taught law and political science at Rutgers University. There Steven taught several of the concepts in The Turn-On that he had developed over 25 years by working in the fields that shape our culture, commerce and conscience.
Today, fulfilling the dream he has had since age 7 to be a rabbi, Steven is studying for the rabbinate at the Academy for Jewish Religion in New York. Reflecting his signature informality, he has used his first name with every student he’s ever taught. But he’s never gone by Steve — he’s just Steven. He still laughs at the time he saw anti-civil rights activists wear buttons that said, “Annoy the opposition. Call him Steve.”
An informal guy but he’s never gone by Steve.
Steven Goldstein is a civil rights leader who began his career as a television news producer, winning ten Emmys, before becoming a producer for Oprah Winfrey. He worked as a lawyer for the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, and as a communications director in the U.S. Senate, before becoming a strategist for leaders in politics, business, and entertainment. As a progressive voice on a wide range of national and international issues, Steven has appeared on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, CSPAN and in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Guardian and other news organizations around the world.
Building on The Turn-On, Steven can evaluate the likeability of anyone in politics, business or entertainment – especially with regard to news events of national and international interest, such as impeachment.
Steven was the founding executive director of Garden State Equality, New Jersey’s statewide organization for LGBTQ equality. In a state known for its larger than life public personalities, he joined their ranks through his civil rights activism that put him in the news nearly every day. The Jewish Standard described Steven as “an irrepressible force, full of shtick and wit and outrage and fun, all at the same time.”
Filmmakers took notice. A 2007 documentary, “Freeheld,” chronicled Steven’s work at Garden State Equality. The following year, “Freeheld” wound up winning the Academy Award for Best Short Documentary. Hollywood then turned “Freeheld” into a full-length feature film with actors, released in 2015, in which Steven was played by Steve Carell.
Steven went on to serve as executive director of the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect, the U.S. civil and human rights organization, where he achieved national recognition as a take-no-prisoners opponent of President Trump. While others had a wait-and-see approach, Steven saw enough in the first months of the Trump Administration to tell Americans that Trump was abetting “white supremacy” and dehumanizing immigrants and refugees through escalating methods used by oppressive regimes.
Steven received his B.A. summa cum laude from Brandeis University; his M.P.P (Master in Public Policy) degree from Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he was editor-in-chief of the public policy journal; his M.S. from the Columbia School of Journalism, and his J.D. from Columbia Law School. He has also taught law and political science at Rutgers University. There Steven taught several of the concepts in “The Turn-On” that he had developed over 25 years by working in the fields that shape our culture, commerce and conscience.
Today, fulfilling the dream he has had since age 7 to be a rabbi, Steven is studying for the rabbinate at the Academy for Jewish Religion in New York. Reflecting his signature informality, he has used his first name with every student he’s ever taught. But he’s never gone by Steve — he’s just Steven. He still laughs at the time he saw anti-civil rights activists wear buttons that said, “Annoy the opposition. Call him Steve.”