Speaker's Series: Jeff Smith

Jeff Smith is a longtime resident of Grand Rapids and a public anarchist who has spent over four decades in social movement work. He co-founded the Koinonia House, a radical hospitality project for the unhoused and a sanctuary for Central American refugees in the 1980s, and has extensive experience  in accompaniment work in Central America and Mexico. He also founded the Grand Rapids Institute for Information Democracy (1998) and the Grand Rapids People’s History Project (2010), which collected oral histories from activists and residents resisting the dominance of the city’s billionaire class.