Louis Smith

Louis Smith currently serves as Director of the Office of Community & Equity at Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia, founded in 1839 as the state’s first secondary school. Louis’ role centers on ensuring that the experience of every Episcopal student is marked by complete access to—and fully engaged belonging in—all facets of school from culture to resources and everything in between.

Parallel to the strategy of the National Center for Race Amity, Louis works to elucidate that his school’s institutional ideals are precisely what drive its institutional imperative to pursue the work of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. While student programming, professional development, recruiting, curricular development, and teaching a section of English are his day-to-day, Louis also serves on the School’s Task Force on Racism, Understanding & Belonging and on the school’s Memorial Working Group.

Previously, Louis was a commercial litigator for the firm of Boies, Schiller & Flexner following a U.S. District Court clerkship under the Honorable Judge John Garrett Penn.

Louis holds a B.A. from Williams College, a J.D. from the University of California College of the Law (San Francisco), and expects to earn a Master’s in August 2024 from Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English.