Heather Smith

Heather Smith led Rock the Vote to achieve its highest voter registration tally in the organization’s 20-year history during the historic election season of 2008 – 2.2 million individuals used Rock the Vote’s tools to register to vote. Prior to becoming President of Rock the Vote, Smith founded and directed Young Voter Strategies, a project that provided research on the youth vote and registered 540,000 new voters age 30 and under in 2006.  Heather has also worked for the Student PIRGs New Voters Project, and for Green Corps’ Field School for Environmental Organizing in Boston.