Vice President/Community Affairs and Foundation

Kit Sawers serves as the Vice President/Community Affairs and Foundations for Emmitt Smith Enterprises. In this role, she oversees all community outreach, including Pat & Emmitt Smith Charities and its primary fundraising event, the Emmitt Smith Celebrity Invitational, a two-day golf event that takes place each May.
 
Prior to joining Emmitt Smith Enterprises, Sawers served as Vice President of Special Events for the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee, helping to prepare the region for the first Super Bowl in North Texas. She worked closely with the NFL to ensure local cooperation in the staging and execution of the events that took place throughout the region leading up to Super Bowl XLV and oversaw the production of more than 50 events, including the historic Kick-Off Concert Series with Faith Hill in Fort Worth, Sting in Dallas and Tim McGraw at XLV Countdown Live at Cowboys Stadium.
 
Prior to that, Sawers spent four years as Executive Director of the Bickel & Brewer Foundation. Sawers also spent nine years at SMU, where she served as Associate Vice President for the University and Executive Director of the annual SMU Athletic Forum/Doak Walker Award and the Willis M. Tate Distinguished Lecture Series.