Lakey Broderius Boyd, AICP, CEcD
Principal

Lakey Boyd is a co-founder and a Principal Partner of Market + Main. A city planner and community strategist, she feels led to help communities become empowered — empowered in the true sense of being self-sustaining and economically viable. Lakey is focused on ensuring communities are truly moved forward through her work.

She offers extensive experience in community and economic development, urban planning, and in creating effective, implementable strategies at local, regional and state levels. Her experience is focused in urban redevelopment, economic analysis, and policy/strategy development. She has a specific orientation to using a holistic approach that incorporates all stakeholders in all planning processes. Lakey has worked in the public, non-profit, and private sectors during her career, providing her with a distinct perspective on how effective economic development and planning really gets done.

Lakey is a rare Atlanta area native. However, she grew up moving frequently across the southside suburbs, and remembers well what it's like to be the "new kid;" she holds dear early lessons in how you have to build community from the ground up. During college and her quarter-life crisis of figuring out what she wanted to be when she grew up, she ended up in a class that opened the door to city planning and community development, and she's never looked back. Lakey has built a life that includes her husband and daughter, as well as friends she embraces as family. She treasures every day of her "happily ever after," and loves to cook for her extended clan to bring people together over a meal to share food and each other.
 

Lakey has received her professional certification from the American Institute of Certified Planners as well as the Certified Economic Developer designation from International Economic Development Council. She earned a Masters of City Planning from Georgia Tech.