<p>Haley Smith is the Director of Marketing at <a href="http://www.artlabtheatre.com" target="_blank"><u>The Artist’s Laboratory Theatre</u></a> and works with underserved communities to expand accessibility to the arts. Haley believes in the transformative power, and intersections of, art, human connection, healing, and intimacy. To date, she built the new marketing department during the theatre's expansion, revamped its brand identity, website, and overall digital presence, implemented a new patron management system, and more. </p><p>She is the winner of two awards from the U.S. Department of State — the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, which funded an international education experience in Argentina, and a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship in Malaysia. While in Malaysia, Haley implemented English-language immersion programming, fundraised for and published an anthology of students’ art and writing, and facilitated intercultural exchange through music, history, food, and dance.</p><p>Haley is the co-founder of PRISM, an Arkansas-based LGBTQ+ collective dedicated to creating fun, brave, and healing spaces for queer and trans people of color in Northwest Arkansas. In addition to her background as a language educator and event coordinator, Haley is a trained musician, singer, writer, and astrologer. She has been featured in Seven Shades of Black — an online London-based arts and music publication — for her music, and was a guest on podcast Marketing Alchemy with Sahara Page. Haley holds a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology and Spanish from the University of Arkansas.</p>