2024 Bill Smith Lecture Featuring LGBTQ+ Advocate Daniella Carter

  • by Kevin R. Johnson
Daniella Carter at the podium for the Bill Smith Lecture.
Daniella Carter speaking at the podium.

This week our Lambda Law Students Association presented the annual Bill Smith lecture with Daniella Carter, a passionate LBGTQ+ advocate. She offered a powerful lecture on life as a trans person in foster care. 

A member of the UC Davis Law Class of 1998, Bill Smith, who died of a disability, was a civil rights activist as a law student. He was honored with the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Service Award. Coincidentally, Bill was a cousin by marriage to my wife, Virginia Salazar, and we spent time with Bill as a student. A classmate of Smith's, Professor Holly Cooper '98 introduced the lecture.