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Dr. Lewis has devoted over 20 years to mentoring and coaching women and girls, as the Executive Director of EduSeed, a nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C., and as the Founder of EduSeed's SisterMentors program. The program promotes education among women and girls of color including African American, Latina, Asian American, Native American and women and girls who are immigrants. Since 1997, the program has helped 21 women of color to get doctorates. Women in the program give back by mentoring girls of color in middle and high schools, encouraging them to stay in school and go on to college.
Dr. Lewis received her Ph.D. in French
Literature from Duke University and her J.D. from the University
of Virginia School of Law. At
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New York and the District of Columbia.
Her scholarship and university teaching is in Francophone West African and Caribbean literature and theory. Her forthcoming book, Race, Culture and Identity, includes a repositioning of black Francophone women as intellectual contributors to the birth of Négritude, a historic literary movement.
Previously she was a teacher and Dean of a high school for girls in Trinidad and Tobago where she was born and raised. She helps raise funds for the first school in a village in Tibet that promotes education among girls. She has served on the board of several community organizations and is a past Co-president of the Washington, D.C. branch of the American Association of University Women.
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