Public Speaking and Academia
Smith is a regular at the Monday Meeting in New York City, which is a meeting of prominent conservative businessmen in New York founded by New York State Banking Commissioners Mallory Factor and James Higgins. He has spoken at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., Yale University, and the Cornell Club in New York City. Smith has spoken at the Conservative Political Action Conference and FreedomFest in Las Vegas along with U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, presidential candidate Mitt Romney, economist Art Laffer, authors Charles Murray, George Gilder, and Dinesh D’Souza, and Wall Street Journal editors Steven Moore, John Fund and James Taranto.
Smith has spoken at Al Sharpton’s National Action Network Conference along with former U.S. Attorney Zach Carter, and at MoneyExpo 2009.
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