Keith Allred

Keith Allred is the Executive Director of the National Institute for Civil Discourse (NICD), an organization that works to build our nation’s capacity to engage differences constructively. His work has been featured in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, The Hill, and Congressional Quarterly.

Keith is also the founder of CommonSense American, now the flagship NICD program that brings Republicans, Democrats, and Independents together from across the country to identify solutions with broad grassroots support and then champion them. The over 85,000 members are now three-for-three in Congress.

Prior to founding CommonSense American, Keith was an Associate Professor of Public Policy Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He started his academic career as a professor at Columbia University. Keith earned a PhD in Organizational Behavior and Social Psychology from UCLA and BA in American History from Stanford.

A fifth-generation Idahoan who grew up working summers on the family cattle ranch, Keith finished eighth in the world standings of the National Cutting Horse Association in 2017 after competing in the World Finals in Fort Worth.