- She was a firefighter for six years in California.
- A documentary filmmaker, Smaker's short films have won awards, including Best Short Documentary at SXSW and a Student Academy Award. She also spent over a decade living and working in the Middle East, five of them in Yemen, where she learned Arabic and studied Islam while teaching firefighting to Yemeni men.
- She has an MFA in Documentary Film from Stanford University, and her short films have won numerous awards, including Best Short Documentary at SXSW and a Student Academy Award.
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