Hannah Smith is Associate Director at the International Center for Law and Religion Studies at Brigham Young University Law School with responsibility for Africa, Asia, and the United States. She received her BA from Princeton University and her JD from BYU Law School (Order of the Coif), where she served as the Law Review’s Executive Editor. Smith was awarded BYU’s Alumni Achievement Award, the Women-in-Law Leadership Award, and the James Madison Award. She worked for U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito and as Becket Law’s Senior Counsel where she secured four landmark Supreme Court victories. Smith has testified before the U.S. Congress, appeared on national media, and is a sought-after speaker. She serves on the Board of Directors for the African Consortium for Law and Religion Studies, the Religious Freedom Institute, and as Board Secretary for the International Religious Freedom Summit, as well as chair on the JRCLS’s Religious Freedom Committee, and a member with her husband John on the ICLRS International Advisory Council.