Evan Smith is a distinguished fellow in journalism at the Karsh Institute of Democracy and Virginia Humanities, and a senior advisor at Emerson Collective, where he works closely with the media team on initiatives that support local news nonprofits around the country. Smith is also a senior advisor at The Texas Tribune, the pioneering nonprofit digital news organization he co-founded in 2009 and led for more than 13 years as CEO. Previously, he spent 18 years at Texas Monthly, including nine years as the magazine’s editor in chief and a year as its president. He is the host of Overheard with Evan Smith, a weekly half-hour interview program that airs on PBS stations around the country. A native of New York, Smith is a graduate of Hamilton College and Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.