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  Smith, Jeff
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AffiliationDemocratic  
 
NameJeff Smith
Address1929 Alfred Ave
St. Louis, Missouri , United States
EmailNone
WebsiteNone
Born December 09, 1973 (50 years)
ContributorBenD
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Dec 09, 2020 09:13am
Tags Jewish - Married - Convicted - Imprisoned -
InfoBorn and raised in St. Louis, Jeff Smith has worked tirelessly to improve his community, with special focuses on enhancing public education and racial cooperation.

Jeff ran for the 3rd congressional district seat vacated by Dick Gephardt in 2004, losing narrowly to Congressman Russ Carnahan. His unique grass roots campaign emphasized face-to-face voter contact; he and his volunteers canvassed nearly 25,000 homes and held 93 coffees throughout the district where voters could meet Jeff and discuss his platform.

Jeff is currently teaching political science as an adjunct at Washington University. He has also taught government and public policy at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire and the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Jeff – who teaches courses covering Congress, public policy, race in American politics, the immigrant experience, and election campaigns – received the 2002 Washington University Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence.

Improving urban education is Jeff’s passion. In spring of 2001, along with Susan Uchitelle and Sarah Smith he co-founded The Confluence Academies, a group of successful public charter schools in the city focusing on math and science. Jeff serves on the academy’s Board of Directors and has spearheaded a program to increase parental involvement. Additionally, Jeff has served as a consultant to the Vashon Compact, a nonprofit group striving to enhance student achievement at ten of the city’s lowest-performing public schools. For years, Jeff taught ACT prep courses at night for disadvantaged area high school students.

Before that, Jeff worked in the St. Louis Public Schools, helping implement an innovative curriculum to enhance middle school students’ math skills. As an evaluator, Jeff visited dozens of the city’s schools and trained district teachers in assessment of student writing.

If urban education is Jeff’s passion, then youth sports are his favorite pastime. He coaches a basketball team at Matthews-Dickey Boys Club, and coached basketball camps for ten summers around the city. He has coached youth soccer and umpired youth baseball in Missouri, North Carolina, and New Hampshire, and has mentored and tutored several St. Louis-area student-athletes.

Jeff has also fought to eliminate racial and religious bigotry. He serves on the Board of Directors of the National Conference for Community and Justice, a nonprofit group dedicated to fighting all types of bias and racism. He also serves on the Board of Director of Cultural Leadership, and organization that educates black and Jewish high school juniors about each group’s history and culture in order to build bridges across traditional divides. Jeff was recently selected to participate in the 2006-07 class of Leadership St. Louis.

Jeff has served as a political analyst for KMOV-TV and for the BBC, and often serves as a lecturer and panelist at local forums. He has appeared on CBS Evening News and in several national papers. Jeff has also advised several Democratic candidates, serving in Iowa as deputy political director for Bill Bradley’s presidential campaign and as a researcher for Charlotte, North Carolina’s first black mayor, Harvey Gantt, in his U.S. Senate campaign against Jesse Helms.

Jeff was a high school co-valedictorian and a National Merit Scholar at the University of North Carolina, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a double major in African-American Studies and Political Science. He received an M.A. and a Ph.D. in political science from Washington University.

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Aug 25, 2009 01:55pm News [Mo. St. Sen Jeff] Smith To Be Charged; Says He Will Resign  Article RBH 

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