Less than a decade after graduating from Dartmouth, where she majored in sociology and played on the varsity softball and baseball club teams, Bianca Smith joined the Red Sox as a minor league coach—the first Black woman in history to reach that goal. But Smith refuses to see herself as a trailblazer, insisting that she's just doing what her parents, also Dartmouth grads, advised. "Find what you're passionate about, what makes you wake up in the morning," they told her. So, after earning a dual degree in law and sports management from Case Western University, Smith interned for the Texas Rangers, and ended up becoming a role model for other Black women aspiring to high-level sports jobs. "But this is just the tip of the iceberg," she tells host Jennifer Avellino '89. "I still feel I haven't done enough."
Less than a decade after graduating from Dartmouth, where she majored in sociology and played on the varsity softball and baseball club teams, Bianca Smith joined the Red Sox as a minor league coach—the first Black woman in history to reach that goal. But Smith refuses to see herself as a trailblazer, insisting that she's just doing what her parents, also Dartmouth grads, advised. "Find what you're passionate about, what makes you wake up in the morning," they told her. So, after earning a dual degree in law and sports management from Case Western University, Smith interned for the Texas Rangers, and ended up becoming a role model for other Black women aspiring to high-level sports jobs. "But this is just the tip of the iceberg," she tells host Jennifer Avellino '89. "I still feel I haven't done enough."