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My Take
I approach Elizabeth Smart with more respect than almost anyone in this database. Abducted at fourteen from her Salt Lake City home, she endured something no child should, and then made the extraordinary choice to turn that trauma into public service. As a child safety advocate, commentator, and memoirist, she has reshaped how America talks about survivors — insisting on dignity rather than pity. What moves me is the quieter detail that she is also a trained harpist; the discipline of music seems woven into her composure. She did not just survive her story; she took authorship of it, and that is a rare kind of courage.
Overview
Elizabeth Ann Gilmour (née Smart; born November 3, 1987) is an American child safety activist and commentator for ABC News. She was thrust into the national spotlight at age 14 when she was abducted from her home in Salt Lake City by Brian David Mitchell.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Elizabeth Smart
- Name (Japanese)
- エリザベス・スマート
- Reading
- えりざべす・すまーと
- Born
- November 3, 1987 (age 38)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Scorpio / Rabbit
- Origin
- Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- historian / memoirist / activist / musician / harpist
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- East High School
- University
- Brigham Young University
Awards & achievements
- 2012 Siena Medal
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Official sitehttp://elizabethsmart.com/
- Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/elizabeth_smart_official/
- Xhttps://x.com/ElizSmart
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Smart
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.