Nina Smith has built quite a resume. Press Secretary for Representative Maxine Waters. National Traveling Press Secretary for Pete Buttigieg. She also worked with Barack Obama’s Small Business Administration. Nina found that walking through the halls of power is based on access to information and opportunities, opportunities that are few and far between in a white, male, heterosexual dominated space. Because she learned how hard it is to get heard when you don’t fit the profile, she helped form Community Groundwork—a new organization that mentors community college students to find, explore, and launch civic careers. Nina Smith knows that the more people that get involved, get engaged having different voices, the better off we’ll all be. And we’re better off having her on this episode of The Jed Cast!