FIGHTING FOR THE PEOPLE AGAINST CORPORATE HACKS WEST VIRGINIA CANT WAIT STEPHEN SMITH

Stephen Smith was born in Charleston, West Virginia. He learned from his parents Mark and Jane that in our state, we judge ourselves by the people we serve; not by the things that we own. Stephen graduated from Harvard College, where he joined with students, janitors, and cooks to win a living wage for all workers on-campus. Since then he has spent his life on the side of poor and working people--organizing alongside youth, immigrants and people with disabilities in Chicago before moving back home in 2012. For 6 years, Stephen led an anti-poverty organization in West Virginia that amassed 27 policy victories (5+ million school breakfasts per year, 180,000 people with health care, a raise in the minimum wage) and sparked more than 300 rural community gardens, after school programs, and small businesses. He is now running for Governor in a campaign that American Prospect editor David Dayen called "true bottom-up politics unlike anything I've ever seen." He lives in Charleston West Virginia with his son Jackson and wife Sara Whitaker, a Kanawha County public defender."