Under Smith's leadership during the past two election cycles, Rock the Vote built new tools and refined best practices for the continued engagement of young voters, setting the highest voter registration records in both midterm and presidential elections in the organization's 20-year history. In 2010, Smith led Rock the Vote in its largest midterm election effort that generated more than 300,000 voter registration applications. This work built on the successful efforts of 2008, when Rock the Vote registered a record-shattering 2.2 million people. Prior to Rock the Vote, Smith founded and directed Young Voter Strategies. In 2004 Smith served as national field director for the Student PIRGs New Voters Project. Prior to her work at the New Voters Project, Smith was an organizing director for Green Corps’ Field School for Environmental Organizing in Boston. Smith received a B.A. with honors in economics and public policy from Duke University.