Nicole Smith
Vice Chair
Nicole Smith has more than 15 years of experience leading strategic communications and advocacy campaigns focused on inspiring constituent engagement and impacting meaningful change. She currently serves as vice president of advocacy for the State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE). Prior to that she was senior vice president of external affairs for Tennesseans for Quality Early Education. She also spent a decade overseeing donor and alumni engagement communications at her alma mater, Vanderbilt University.
Following the Covenant School shooting, Nicole felt compelled to use her professional skills, along with her passion to create change, to help address the ongoing gun violence in her home state. She is a founding board member of Voices for a Safer Tennessee and resides in Nashville with her husband and two young sons.