Tim Smith received his BA in Political Science from Providence College in Rhode Island. He has worked for several years as a program coordinator and research assistant at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and Graduate School of Design, with a focus on Public Policy, Urban Planning and Urban Design. He received a Higher Diploma in Fine Art from the Burren College of Art at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His most recent work explores his interest in urban landscape and ecology, cultural geography, and the understanding of how social and personal identity is constructed through memory and place.