Jeff Smith (Missouri politician)

Jeff Smith
Member of the Missouri Senate
from the 4th district
In office
January 3, 2007 – August 25, 2009[1]
Succeeded byJoseph Keaveny
Personal details
Born (1973-12-09) December 9, 1973 (age 50)
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
SpouseTeresa Wallace
Children2
EducationUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (BA)
Washington University in St. Louis (MA, PhD)

Jeff Smith (born December 9, 1973) is an American politician who served as a member of the Missouri Senate, representing the 4th district from 2007 until 2009. His district covered the western portion of the City of St. Louis.

Prior to his political career, Smith co-founded Confluence Academies, a group of urban charter schools in St. Louis that now enroll nearly 4,000 students. He also authored a successful[2] and critically acclaimed[3][4] book chronicling the injustices faced by those incarcerated, Mr. Smith Goes to Prison. excerpted by Politico.[5] Smith continues his community work as the executive vice president of community engagement and policy at Concordance Academy, a St. Louis-based nonprofit that provides comprehensive re-entry services to individuals returning to the community after prison.

  1. ^ "Jeff Smith Resigns Missouri Senate, Pleads Guilty to Two Felonies".
  2. ^ "Mr Smith Prison | User Clip | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org. Retrieved 2018-12-05.
  3. ^ Hochschild, Adam (2016-05-26). "Our Awful Prisons: How They Can Be Changed". The New York Review of Books. ISSN 0028-7504. Retrieved 2018-12-05.
  4. ^ Zengerle, Jason (2015-11-12). "This Politician Went to Jail—and Learned Some Surprising Truths About Prison". GQ. Retrieved 2018-12-05.
  5. ^ Smith, Jeff (September 2015). "'The Senator Be Embezzling'". POLITICO Magazine. Retrieved 2018-12-05.