Sarah B. Smith

In a more than twenty-year career in non-profit and public service, Mrs. Smith has led teams that unite and enable stakeholders to achieve ambitious goals. She has a deep background in cultivating effective relationships, developing and implementing large grants, and capital campaign management. She forged these skills, along with her tenacity for realizing game-changing visions, through experience as director of advancement and alumni relations in a regional parochial school system, as chief of staff for Maumelle Mayor Caleb Norris, and as director of operations for a statewide non-profit organization.

A native of Oklahoma and a self-described “science nerd”, Mrs. Smith earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology and her master’s degree in public administration from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.