Steve Smith, originally from Dayton, Ohio, serves as the America First Policy Institute's (AFPI) Chief of Staff and the Director of the Center for New Frontiers. Within the first year of founding AFPI, Smith led the Institute’s growth from a pitch deck to 150 employees, recruited former Cabinet Secretaries and White House staff to operate 22 policy centers, organized over 90 conservative organizations from around the country to form the Save America Coalition successfully killing a proposed $5 trillion dollar "Build Back Better Bill," and helped orchestrate the filing of one of the largest class action lawsuits in American history by taking on big tech and representing over 100k censored individuals.