Smith made her television debut in Sidney Lumet's 100 Centre Street, playing a teen drug addict.

[4] Smith played CIA agent Sandra Burns in the action movie Abduction with Taylor Lautner and Alfred Molina.

In the same year she played Ola O' Hara in the film Yelling to the Sky with Zoe Kravitz and Gabourey Sidibe and Jason Clarke.

She had a role in the Golden Globe-nominated film Across the Universe and has guest starred on Law & Order and HBO's Bored to Death.

[citation needed] She appeared in the Netflix film Deuces and in the FOX drama series Shots Fired, executive produced by Brian Grazer and Gina Prince-Bythewood and starring Sanaa Lathan, Richard Dreyfuss, Helen Hunt, and Stephen Moyer.

The video was directed by Larenz Tate and co-stars actor Lance Gross and social media star King Bach and was released on December 2, 2014 on Essence Online.