RUTH SERVEN SMITH

Ruth Serven Smith is a senior managing producer and reporter at AL.com who reports on politics, policy, elections and education issues. She founded The Alabama Education Lab team at AL.com in 2021. The Ed Lab was an award-winning team of journalists who pursued solutions journalism that changed laws and policy in Alabama schools. She grew up in Oklahoma and attended the University of Missouri School of Journalism. She is also an alumna of the Online News Association's Women's Leadership Accelerator and the Overton Fellowship.