Joanne N. Smith

This article is about the feminist and social worker. For the airline executive, see Joanne Smith. For the country singer, see Joanna Smith. For the politician, see Joann H. Smith.
Joanne Smith
NationalityHaitian-American
EducationBowie State University (BA)
Hunter College (MSW)
Columbia University (MA)
Occupation(s)Feminist, human rights advocate, social worker

Joanne Ninive Smith[1] is a first-generation Haitian-American social worker and activist born and raised in New York City.[2] She is the executive director and founder of the Brooklyn-based non-profit organization, Girls for Gender Equity. Smith has organized around the issues of gender equality, racial justice, school pushout, sexual harassment, police brutality, the criminalization of black girls in schools and violence against transgender and gender non-conforming people of color.

  1. ^ Catalog record for "Hey Shorty". Worldcat. OCLC 693750944. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  2. ^ "Joanne N. Smith". New York Foundation. Archived from the original on 2016-06-25. Retrieved 2016-06-15.