Meet Lynda Wolfe Smith

As President of Beyond the Green Card, LLC, the mission of Beyond the Green Card, LLC the mission is promote awareness and consciousness through the vehicle of education and engagement using responsibilities and duties for personal growth and enhancement for leadership building. Ms. Smith is a native of Mobile, Alabama. She received her A.A. Degree from S.D. Bishop State College, her B.S. Degree from Alabama State University with a major in Social Studies and a minor in Political Science and a Master’s Degree from Clark Atlanta University in Secondary Education. As a 40+ year as an educator, she received the Georgia and Junior National Junior Achievement Teacher of the Year, a Bronze Leadership Award, winner, Runner-up for the GAE Teacher Hall of Fame, and recipient of a Readers Digest Scholarship at Clark Atlanta University, and an Honorary Life Member Georgia PTA. . In the community she has volunteered at Morris Brown College and mentored numerous former students, their children, and friends. In the professional community she serves as President of the Atlanta Association of Educators Retired Caucus. As her activism grew, she was also elected President of the Atlanta Association of Educators, and President of the Georgia Association of Educators-Retired and Co-editor of the award winning In the Know Newsletter. She was elected to the NEA-Retired Council and honored with their Distinguished Service Award. Her most recent recognition was presented on the cover of the (NEA) National Association of Education ( NEA ) magazine NEA Today for Senior Voter Advocacy- When Seniors Vote as a result of an NEA Grant. As a proud member of Tturner Monumental African Methodist Episcopal Church, she is the Chair of the Denise Jackson Gunn Scholarship Committee, Chair of the Social Justice Committee, and member of Usher Board # She is proud mother of daughter Ebony R. Smith and son Jabari M. Smith. She has four grandchildren, Jamari, Jabari, Serena, and Aurelius. She enjoys group interacting with youth, billiards, swimming, reading, African American and biblical studies. One of her favorite quotes of many: “If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when? If not you, who? Rabbi Hillel