Laura Smith

Laura Smith is an assistant professor in the department of counseling and clinical psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University. Dr. Smith was formerly the director of training of the APA-accredited predoctoral internship program at Pace University, the founding director of the Rosemary Furman Counseling Center at Barnard College, and the director of psychological services at the West Farms Career Center, where she provided services within a multifaceted community-based organization in the Bronx. Her research interests include social class and poverty, the influence of classism on psychological theory and service, the development of socially-just models of community-based psychological practice, and participatory action research (PAR) in schools and communities.