Kim Smith

Kim Smith is Founder and CEO of LearnerStudio, a nonprofit helping innovators imagine and build a future-ready learning system in which all young people are inspired and prepared to flourish in the age of AI. Deeply inspired by human ingenuity and service to the common good, Kim served on the founding team of Teach For America, launched and led BAYAC AmeriCorps, and co-founded NewSchools Venture Fund. She went on to help launch Bellwether Education Partners, and later founded the Pahara-Aspen Fellowship and Lone Rock Retreat. Under her leadership, LearnerStudio seeds ideas, funds innovators, and connects people to accelerate a more equitable, learner-centered future. Her work focuses on transforming a legacy system built for the industrial era into a flexible learning ecosystem that prepares every young person for purposeful lives, meaningful careers, and engaged citizenship. Kim serves on the boards of City Year, Citizens & Scholars, and Playlab AI. She holds a BA in Political Science and Psychology from Columbia University, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.