Garrette Smith oversees one of Charlotte Mecklenburg Library's (CML) flagship locations, ImaginOn. She joined CML in August 2022, bringing over 20 years of experience from large, urban libraries. Garrette’s favorite book is “The Art of War” by Sun Tzu, and she says that her favorite part of working at CML is the team spirit among staff members. She enjoys traveling and cooking with her husband and three sons. Garrette is a recent Senior Fellow of the American Leadership Forum (ALF) and an alum of the C.T. Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston (MBA) and Clark Atlanta University School of Library and Information Science (MLIS).