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Smith, who is currently completing the final year of her Ph.D. program in American Studies at Purdue University in Indiana, says Lee Andrew Smith II approached her with the idea of moderating the summit in late January. Lee Smith’s mission, she says, was to host a series of traveling information sessions for business owners to talk about the “tools to be successful” and create an ecosystem of community and consulting in different cities, similar to the connections he created in the Los Angeles area.“I have a poster of Black-owned food trucks,” said Smith, who is a Birmingham native. “To start my research with that poster and to end the last year of my Ph.