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Darron T. Smith is an African American social science professor and writer. Smith was born in Nashville, Tennessee and was raised in Southern California. He joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon Church) in the early 1980s. He attended Ricks College (Brigham Young University Idaho) then transferred to the University of Utah where completed his bachelor's degree and certification as a physician assistant. Smith later attended Brigham Young University where he completed his masters degree. He completed his doctoral work at the University of Utah in the Department of Education, Culture and Society. He is frequent political and cultural commentator for Huffington Post where he writes on various issues of inequality in the form of racism, classism, sexism and other systems of U.S. based oppression.

He has also contributed to various media forums from Religion Dispatches and ESPN's Outside the Lines to The New York Times and Chicago Tribune op-ed sections. Smith's research spans a wide myriad of topics on healthcare disparities, Mormon and Religious studies, Race & Sports, Transracial Adoption and the Black Family. He is the co-author of White Parents, Black Children: Experiencing Transracial Adoption as well as the co-editor of Black and Mormon and The Impact of Social Factors on Health: A Critical Reader for the Physician Assistant.