Norma Smith is a community scholar from Oakland, California, and the founding director of The Edge of Each Other’s Battles Project. The Edge Project brings together academic and community-based scholars to work toward social change. We produce community events, organize sessions at academic conferences, and facilitate interdisciplinary, site-specific, collaboratively designed seminars, conferences, and working groups on themes related to community history, culture, and politics. Norma worked in hospitals for more than forty years. Her current oral history project, “Who Cares: Representation, Voice, and Shared Authority on Medical Ethics Committees,” asks the questions, Who serves on medical ethics committees? and How might community representation on such committees be supported in more authentic ways than it is at present? Recently retired. Now working on poetry, fiction, memoir, and some oral history.