Honor Maria Ford-Smith (born 1951 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Jamaican actress, playwright, scholar, and poet.
[2] Sistren created its own plays collaboratively, and performed in Jamaica and abroad; the group also worked extensively in community theatre and popular education, particularly around issues affecting women.
[1] She edited and contributed to Sistren's book Lionheart Gal: Life Stories of Jamaican Women, published in 1986 and re-issued, with a new afterword by Ford-Smith, in 2005.
[1] Ford-Smith is a founding mother of the Caribbean Association for Feminist Research and Action (CAFRA).
[1] She teaches at York University in Toronto under the Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change.