Trevor Smith
Trevor Smith (he/him) is a writer, researcher, and strategist focused on topics such as racial inequality, wealth inequality, reparations, and narrative change.
He is the Co-founder and Executive Director of the BLIS Collective, an infrastructure organization sparking radical collaboration and narrative alignment between and within Black, Indigenous, and progressive social movements to repair, decolonize, and transform culture. Previously, he was the Director of Narrative Change at Liberation Ventures, a field builder fueling the movement for Black-led racial repair, where he is building the ‘Reparations Narrative Lab’ (RNL). The RNL is a first-of-its-kind creative space designed to build narrative power behind reparations. He has also held roles at the Surdna Foundation, ACLU of NY, and Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.