Board of Directors
Background
Heather Smith is the Executive Director of Rock the Vote, where she works to build political power for our nation’s youth and leverage that political power to influence progressive change in our country. Prior to Rock the Vote, Heather served as the Director of Young Voter Strategies, a project of The Graduate School of Political Management at The George Washington University with support from The Pew Charitable Trusts, working to make the targeting of young voters a more permanent part of electoral strategies. Prior to launching Young Voter Strategies, Heather served as the national field director for the PIRGs New Voters Project, the largest nonpartisan grassroots effort ever undertaken to register and mobilize young voters. From 2000-2003, Heather served as an organizing director for Green Corps, coordinating campaigns with the Heritage Forests Campaign, Greenpeace, Sierra Club, and many other leading environmental organizations. Heather received a B.A. with honors in economics and public policy from Duke University and began her organizing career with Green Corps in 1999.
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