04/27/2022
PHENOMENAL WOMAN SPOTLIGHT
Barbara K. Hughes Smith, Ph.D. is a retired Director of the Office of Guidance and Counseling for Detroit Public Schools. She received a Ph.D., in Counseling Psychology, School of Education from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Dr. Hughes Smith is a Licensed Professional Counselor and serves on the Boards of the Rosa Parks Scholarship Foundation, Detroit Memorial Park Association and Detroit UNCF Leadership.
Other affiliations include:
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority,Inc
Charter Membership with the following organizations:
Detroit ASALH, Detroit Pierians, Inc.
The Great Lakes Chapter of Links, Inc.
Dr. Smith is a lifetime member and past board member of the Fred Hart Williams Genealogical Society.
In Essex Co. Ontario, she celebrates her Canadian heritage as a
Founding member of the Essex County Black Historical Research Society and on the board of directors of the Amherstburg Freedom Museum.
She is one of several chapter authors of
A Fluid Frontier and has co-authored and co-edited a few publications with her mother, Dr. Roberta Hughes Wright.
Dr. Smith volunteers on three committees at the Charles Wright Museum of African American History, named after her second father, Charles H. Wright, M.D.
He along with her birth parents, Dr. Roberta Hughes Wright and Wilbur B. Hughes, Jr inspired her to be a change agent in the lives of Detroit youth.
She and her husband, Joseph W. Smith have a blended family of four adult children and two grandchildren.
Barbikath Smith
