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Kim Smith is the founder of LearnerStudio, an equity-focused education investment studio being incubated inside Cambiar Education.
She is also the founder and CEO of the Pahara Institute, a national nonprofit that aims to identify, strengthen, and sustain diverse high-potential leaders who are transforming public education.
Immediately prior, she was co-founder of Bellwether Education Partners. Earlier in her career she was a founding team member at Teach For America, created an AmeriCorps program serving community-based leaders in youth development, led a trade show start-up, and did a stint in online learning at Silicon Graphics.
After completing her MBA at Stanford, she co-founded the NewSchools Venture Fund, a philanthropy focused on catalyzing a bipartisan, cross-sector community of entrepreneurial change agents for public education.
Kim was featured in Newsweek’s report on the “Women of the 21st Century” as “the kind of woman who will shape America’s new century.”
Recommended Resources:
The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy by Anand Girardharas
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
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Kim Smith is the founder of LearnerStudio, an equity-focused education investment studio being incubated inside Cambiar Education.
She is also the founder and CEO of the Pahara Institute, a national nonprofit that aims to identify, strengthen, and sustain diverse high-potential leaders who are transforming public education.
Immediately prior, she was co-founder of Bellwether Education Partners. Earlier in her career she was a founding team member at Teach For America, created an AmeriCorps program serving community-based leaders in youth development, led a trade show start-up, and did a stint in online learning at Silicon Graphics.
After completing her MBA at Stanford, she co-founded the NewSchools Venture Fund, a philanthropy focused on catalyzing a bipartisan, cross-sector community of entrepreneurial change agents for public education.
Kim was featured in Newsweek’s report on the “Women of the 21st Century” as “the kind of woman who will shape America’s new century.”
Recommended Resources:
The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy by Anand Girardharas
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt

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