Mr. Smith is a certified public accountant working as a tax preparation and accounting professional for the past decade.  He started his accounting career at Ernst and Young US LLP where he worked with clients in the high-net worth individual, non-profit, sports entertainment, and technology sectors.  Mr. Smith was an accounting manager at CalOSHA and Dept of Workers Compensation for the past nine years.  He supervised the accounts receivable, accounts payable and Federal grant units.  Mr. Smith graduated from Columbia university in 2004.  Upon graduation, he worked at the King Papers Project in Stanford university.  Initiated in 1985 by The King Center in Atlanta, King Center’s founder and president Coretta Scott King invited Stanford University historian Clayborne Carson to become the Project’s director.  Mr. Smith was part of the editorial team that published the MLK Encyclopedia (2008) and King Papers Volume VI: Advocate of the Social Gospel (2007).  Mr. Smith is active with his church and for six years he managed the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program annually preparing hundreds of tax returns for the local community while promoting saving and financial literacy.