Adrienne R. Smith, Education and Workforce Consultants, LLC

Adrienne R. Smith
Education and Workforce Consultants, LLC
Placitas, New Mexico

Adrienne R. Smith is President of Education and Workforce Consultants.

Youth in New Mexico, 2005

She provides assistance to international, national and community clients in the areas of youth development, youth employment, workforce development, evaluation, sustainability and resource development.

Ms. Smith was founding director of a national academy for training youth workers for executive positions, assisting a Board and the National Youth Employment Coalition (NYEC) in development, recruitment, selection and curriculum design of that academy. Ms. Smith developed a first academy for training Youth Opportunity (YO!) directors, grantees of $4-$12 community-wide programs funded by the US Department of Labor. Experience in evaluation design is through university training; she also has served as a lead planner for data gathered to equalize school finance funding in Texas.

Ms. Smith served Governor Ray Mabus of Mississippi from 1989-91 as advisor on literacy, education and the state’s first Commission on Workforce Excellence. She hosted a first statewide conference for adult learners, and was responsible for conducting the first statewide inventory of programs for adult learners and literacy. She was responsible for developing and sustaining youth programs in communities affiliated with Jobs for America’s Graduates and helped to build programs in eight states over four years.

Students of a Vocational School
Borobudur, Indonesia

Her work includes development of national strategies to serve in-school and out-of-school youth in Honduras, Brazil and Indonesia. Most recently, work includes assistance to US Agency for International Development (USAID) in Honduras, Indonesia and the Philippines in the areas of youth employment. She serves as an advisor/mentor to emerging leaders in the youth development field and volunteers as a “buddy” and reviewer for NYEC’s Promising and Effective Practices Network (PEPNet).

She serves on the Board of the National Youth Employment Coalition and is a Board Member of the New Mexico Forum for Youth in Community. She loves working with youth staff and organizations that serve young adults.

Children and Youth from Bernalillo, New Mexico

Children and Youth
Bernalillo, New Mexico

Children in Jackson, Mississippi, 2006