Josh Smith is a social worker who specializes in using rap, R&B, and pop music to help teens reflect on their experiences and gain insight into their emotions. Before pursuing a career in social work, he worked as a museum educator and as a workshop leader for teens in schools around the Northeast.
Josh records and performs as Josh the Word, and released his album When You Get Home in 2022. He lives in Brooklyn and grew up in Woodstock, spending his teen years wielding a foam sword at Wayfinder camps around the Hudson Valley. He has been teaching at Wayfinders workshops at Omega for more than a decade, and has worked on the directorship team for its teen workshop at Family Week since 2015.