Ja’Ron specializes in regulatory affairs, economic mobility, social justice, finance, banking, and housing policy. Smith worked in the Trump Administration as the highest and longest-serving African American. While at the WH, as the Deputy Asst for Domestic Policy and Deputy Dir of WH Office of American Innovation, he focused on criminal justice reform, immigration, re-entry, economic revitalization, OZs, infrastructure, trade, economic growth and job creation, and HBCU initiatives.