In this task, you are given a list of integers and an integer k. You need to find the kth smallest element in the input list and return that.

[111, 237, 259, 215, 30, 293, 167, 90, 276, 208, 35, 257, 181, 280, 234, 255, 193, 165, 107, 66], k=14
237