Josh Smith

Principal, West Denver Prep - Harvey Campus

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit." -Aristotle.

Joshua Smith is the founding Principal of West Denver Prep's Harvey Park Campus, a middle school serving the families of Southwest Denver. The Harvey Park Campus was ranked number one out of all schools in Denver on the 2010 Denver Public School's School Perfromance Framework and had the highest academic growth of any secondary school in the state of Colorado.

Mr. Smith was a Teach for America corps member in the Rio Grande Valley from 2001 to 2004, where he was recognized as Campus Teacher of the Year (2003-2004) and Wal-Mart Community Teacher of the Year (2003-2004). Prior to re-locating to Colorado, Mr. Smith spent several years conducting research and policy advocacy in Washington, DC, with think-tanks such as Third Way, the Stimson Center, and the Woodrow Wilson Center, and was selected as a Presidential Management Fellow in 2006.

He holds a Bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a Master's degree from Georgetown University.