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Virtual College Send-off “Very Inspiring! I'm in tears of joy!,” one of our guests exclaimed. We kicked off our week of college visits, on Monday, April 3, 2023, with a packed virtual send-off teeming with excitement and energy. Over fifty donors and friends showed up...
Two decades ago, Ms. magazine interviewed the founder of SisterMentors, Dr. Shireen Lewis, in its Summer 2000 issue—and here we are again, just as SisterMentors celebrates its 25th anniversary this September. Read the full article on msmagazine.com
The Impact “Dr. Lewis, I have not been feeling well these past couple of days,” the text said. The first thought that came to mind was Covid. “Have you tested for Covid?” I responded. “No, I have not. I have not been doing well,” the text said. I immediately picked up...
From Monday, April 11 to Friday, April 15, 2022, SisterMentors girls and young women virtually visited seven colleges and met with President Carmen Twillie Ambar of Oberlin College. During these exciting and informative visits, we heard from admissions, students of...
Listen on Kalamu ya Salaam’s information blog ▶ Dr. Shireen K. Lewis joined the show this week to discuss her work on Black women and Negritude. Her book Race, Culture, and Identity: Francophone West African and Caribbean Literature and Theory from Negritude to...
Originally published in UVA Lawyer - Fall 2009 - View Original Article Dr. Shireen Lewis '89 received an “Unsung Hero" award from Ebony magazine, for making a difference for children, schools, and communities. Lewis is the executive director of EduSeed and founder of...
SisterMentors was featured in the March 2007 issue of Inside Higher Ed Read full article Here When you think of a Ph.D., “you think of a man standing in front of the room teaching," says Roxie Jairrels, a high school senior from Alexandria, Va. who hopes to push that...
By Laura Dowrich-Phillips Obtaining a doctorate is different from getting a bachelor’s or masters degree. For one thing, the duration of time it takes to get a doctorate is longer, seven to ten years on average. Then there’s the research, which, depending on the...
When Shireen Lewis entered grade school in Trinidad and Tobago, her country was in its early years of independence from Great Britain. Fortunately, it had a leader who acted on the maxim that educating its young people was essential to a successful future for the young Caribbean nation.
by R. Erica Doyle 1997, SHIREEN LEWIS WAS ANOTHER isolated scholar climbing up the ivory tower, teetering on the brink of that limbo known as ABD (all but dissertation) "Something was going to give," Lewis remembers, "and It wasn't going to be me!" Drawing on her...