Carrie Smith

Director of Communications, SpartanNash
Tenacity

Carrie Smith is a passionate advocate for postpartum mothers. Having navigated motherhood and postpartum depression herself—along with additional heartbreaking personal struggles—she has poured herself into improving outcomes for mothers, parents, and babies as the former Executive Director for MomsBloom and through lobbying and public speaking engagements.

Smith started her career as a reporter at WOOD-TV8, and then worked her way through the ranks at BISSELL and AHC+Hospitality. In 2018, Smith began leading MomsBloom through a difficult phase that threatened the non-profit’s closure. She knew it would be challenging, but she got to work—fundraising, revising the program model, recruiting and training volunteers and planning events. Under her leadership, the program grew to serve more than 400 postpartum mothers each year with free in-home support services. Following MomsBloom’s continued success, Smith recently accepted a position as Director of Communications for SpartanNash, and volunteers her time on the board at Park Church. 

“In my early years,” Smith says, “I doubted myself often, and wondered if I was too ‘weak’ for leadership, simply because I’m a sensitive person. But in time, I realized that my depth of emotion was a gift and not something that would hold me back.”