Andrea Smith (other)
Andrea Smith may refer to: *Andrea Smith (academic), intellectual, feminist, and anti-violence activist *Andrea Smith (politician) Andrea Smith is a New Zealand public servant and current deputy secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Life and career Smith is currently deputy secretary of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation 2021 (APEC21) a role she took up in May 2017 ...

Andrea Smith (academic)
Andrea Lee Smith is an American academic, feminist, and activist. Smith's work focuses on issues of violence against women of color and their communities, specifically Native American women. Formerly an assistant professor of American Culture and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Smith serves as a professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at University of California, Riverside. A co-founder of INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, the Boarding School Healing Project, and the Chicago chapter of Women of All Red Nations, Smith has based her activism and her scholarship on the lives of women of color. Since at least 1991, Smith has falsely claimed to be Cherokee. She is not enrolled in any recognized Cherokee tribes, and genealogist David Cornsilk, who has said Smith hired him twice to research her claims of heritage, found no evidence of Cherokee ancestry on either occasion. The controversy over Smith's claims of Cherokee identity receive ...
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