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Alan Smith

Community Leadership Manager, Consumer Reports

Alan Smith is the Manager of Community Leadership at Consumer Reports (CR), building consumer power by distributing leadership and investing in CR's members as educators, organizers, storytellers and testers in their own right. He supports local leaders in building community and in building the power needed to reform marketplaces. Smith is a Board Member of the Brooklyn Movement Center and a founding member of the Football Club Group cooperative.

Before joining Consumer Reports, Alan Smith was the Associate Director of Networked Initiatives at the Roosevelt Institute, a progressive economic think tank. He also worked as a producer on WNYC’s Peabody award-winning Brian Lehrer Show, reporting on cutting-edge policy ideas from around New York City, the country, and the world.