She also used her platform to be an advocate for women and LGBTQ people interested in science and technology. Prior to the White House, Smith spent over a decade as a vice president at Google, where she led the new business development team, acquiring platforms like Google Maps and Google Earth. She then co-led Google's advanced-products team, creating SolveForX, a forum encouraging tech-based moonshot thinking and collaboration, and WomenTechmakers, a tech-diversity initiative, where she piloted unconscious bias training across Google and beyond. "We need to know that women have always done these [technical] jobs at all levels, even if they've been written out of the story," says Smith. "We just lose our history all the time, and it's really debilitating to young girls and minorities, and to young boys who don't realize that women should be there, or that girls should be there, too."