Barbara Logan Smith

With over 25 years as a dedicated teacher, administrator, and master trainer, Dr. Barbara Logan Smith has worked to build capacity in over 20,000 educators, business executives, and non-profit leaders on a national scale and to ensure the achievement of educational equity, excellence, and access for all children. With previous service as Vice President of the Efficacy Institute and Executive Director of Teach For America’s Greater Delta region of Mississippi and Arkansas, Dr. Logan Smith currently works in the non-profit educational sector as the Chief of Equity and Belonging at Teach For America. Focused on illuminating brilliance, her work centers on increasing equity, belonging, and grace in the world. She resides with her husband, Dr. Chris Smith, in Chicago, IL