Corey Minor Smith
Harvard Business School recognized the immense contribution Corey Minor Smith has made to society when it bestowed on her a certificate for completion of its 2023 Women of Color Leadership Program. Rolling Out magazine calls Corey Minor Smith a “legendary lawyer, renowned attorney, noted mental health advocate, prominent media fixture, and New York Times celebrated author.” The New York Times captured the dramatic scope of Corey Minor Smith’s life when it described her as “a fascinating woman who moved 21 times and attended 14 different schools before graduating high school, [has a loved one living with schizophrenia], became a mother her senior year of college, and eventually went to law school and became a successful attorney.” These experiences along with becoming a trained facilitator for the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), have paved the way for her mental health advocacy work.
With a considerable national profile as a mental health and wellness advocate, Minor Smith has appeared in national media in prestigious venues like nationally syndicated radio show The Breakfast Club. She has also been featured in Forbes and Rolling Out magazines. As a well-regarded author, Minor Smith contributed to the Audible Original We’ve Got Answers and penned a powerful memoir entitled #Driven (pronounced Hashtag Driven) with a foreword by the renowned motivational speaker Les Brown. #Driven was crowned as “searing and moving” by the New York Times and featured as an Amazon Celebrity Pick. Minor Smith’s consulting talents and inspirational words have also benefited Fortune 500 companies such as ViacomCBS, Xerox and iHeartMedia.
More importantly, #Driven was written from my heart and is used as a resource for family and friends that have loved ones living with severe mental illness. Subsequently, Corey developed an at-a-glance resource, Five Essential Keys to Loving a Loved One with Severe Mental Illness, and My Go-To Mental Health Resources, an accessible and lucid guide that is jam packed with all kinds of information including apps, podcasts, organizations, books and movies focused on mental health - both available at coreyempowers.com.
Corey has received numerous accolades and awards, including the NAACP - Stark County Image Award, NAMI-Stark County Starfish Award, Boy Scouts of America Buckeye Council Spirit of Scouting Award, She Elevates Woman of Courage Award, induction into the YWCA Women’s Hall of Fame, and was named an ATHENA International Women’s Leadership Finalist. Along with being a philanthropist and being actively involved with a host of organizations and programs, Corey is a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. and the Bowling Green State University Alumni Board. Minor Smith lives in Washington D.C. and will always be mom to her two adult sons : Jaylon and Jordan.
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