Biography of steven j goldstein esq

Steven Goldstein is CEO and Chief Strategist at Steven Goldstein Insights.

Steven founded Garden State Equality, New Jersey’s statewide organization for equality, in 2004. As executive director, he led the winning campaigns for marriage equality and more than 200 other state and local civil rights laws, a number of which he helped to write.

The Harvard Law and Policy Review wrote Steven had built an “immensely successful model for the rest of the country.”  The Associated Press has called his impact “magical.”

A 2007 documentary, “Freeheld,” chronicled Steven’s work at Garden State Equality and won the Academy Award for Best Short Documentary.

Hollywood turned “Freeheld” into a full-length film, released in 2015, in which Steven was played by Steve Carell.

Steven became national executive director of the Anne Frank Center USA, the U.S. organization in the Anne Frank family of organizations worldwide.

HuffPost wrote the organization under Steven “catapulted to nati