Codi Smith currently serves as the associate director of stewardship at the LSU Foundation. Her role includes gift acknowledgements, donor reporting, and donor relations support to the schools and colleges of LSU. In 2018 she completed the CASE Advancement Internship Program with the Texas A&M Foundation where she worked on stewardship planning for corporate and foundation relations as well as strategic planning for the endowment report.  She notes her three-fold experience as a CASE intern, graduate of the Bush School of Government and Public Service, and AmeriCorps alum the motivation behind her commitment to philanthropy and the nonprofit sector at large.