REDLINING, STEERING, AND RACE: How the U.S. Government Segregated America

KEM SMITH was born and raised in downtown Baltimore -- just 5 blocks from the famed Inner Harbor. Kem’s life motto is inspired by our16th President Abraham Lincoln, “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” The piercing irony of that quote is not lost in the fact that for Black Americans, their own Government did just that by covertly establishing geographic boundaries and exclusionary policies that would deny them and future generations of millions of Black families the untethered freedom to live the American dream.

After a successful ten-year professional basketball career, Kem’s eyes were set on helping to educate the general public, with a focus on the BIPOC communities, about the long-term benefits of real estate investing. Kem is the founder and managing member of the Champy Investment Group, LLC, a real estate solutions company located in Baltimore, MD. She is a licensed Real Estate…