Camilla Smith

Camilla Smith joined the board of the PBS Foundation in 2018. Smith is an accomplished writer and editor with publishing experience from G.P. Putnam’s Sons publishers and Columbia University’s Teacher’s College Press. Smith also worked for the New York City Board of Education and the Japanese American Citizen’s League. Smith is President of the Leakey Foundation, Vice President and Trustee of the National Public Radio Foundation, Trustee of Teachers College Columbia University, San Francisco Performances, and on the boards of the Interfaith Center at the Presidio, KQED Public Radio and Television, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, San Francisco State University Foundation, Science Friday Initiative, the University of California Berkeley Library. She is also on the Science Visiting Council for NOVA at WGBH. She is on the advisory Board of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.

Smith received a certificate from the University of Grenoble, France, a bachelor’s degree at Brigham Young University, and a master’s degree in Education at Columbia University.