Randy Boehm is the founder of The Gateway Coalition in 1994 and of the Gateway-Georgia Avenue Revitalization Corporation in 1997. He served as Co-Chair of the Coalition for seven years and as founding President of the GGARC for three years. He is by profession an historian with University Publications of America (a member of the Lexis-Nexis family of publications), where he specializes in developing publications documenting American social movements. Among his many editions are microform collections of records of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the National Negro Business League, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and numerous collections on the modern Black Power Movement. He has also edited microform editions of the Papers of Eleanor Roosevelt, Mary McLeod Bethune, Bayard Rustin, and Carter G. Woodson. He has also worked extensively in the history of American immigration policy, including Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service; and in labor history and women's history, including records of the Congress of Industrial Organizations and the Records of the League of Women Voters of the U.S.

Mr. Boehm was educated at Rutgers University, Georgetown University and the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He is a resident of Takoma Park where he has been active as a neighborhood association president and in youth recreation programs.