Associate Professor Emerita Lewis' 40 years of community service spans local, state, national, and international organizations including the National Association of Black Social Workers, the Council on Social Work Education, the National Council on Family Relations, Boards of Trustees of American Baptist and Episcopal churches, the Groves Conference on Families, New Beginnings Academy, University of Michigan Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Faculty Against Institutional Racism, the African-American Endowment Fund, and the Michigan Black Child in Crisis Conference. She served on the faculty of the University of Michigan School of Social Work and Women's Studies Department between 1985 and 2014. A collegiate chair in social work is named in her honor. Education: 1973: BA summa cum laude, social work, University of Minnesota | 1975: MSW, social work, University of Minnesota | 1985: PhD, social welfare, University of Wisconsin-Madison.