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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 Black Scholar continues to celebrate the journal's Fiftieth Anniversary with the release of its latest issue, “Black Girlhood," which highlights the significance, challenges and beauty of Black girls. There is a growing body of scholarship on the experiences of...
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...
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.
Qu’ont en commun Losang, la Tibétaine, Najat, la Saoudienne et Kangbai, l’Africaine? Elles font parties du programme de SisterMentors, une organisation basée à Washington, qui encourage l’éducation parmi les femmes et les jeunes filles de couleur.
by Sabrina Pollard In January 2003 SisterMentors was featured in DIVAS 35, a magazine for women of color, published in Paris, France. DIVAS is distributed in France, the United States, Martinique, and Guadeloupe. You can also read the article in French. What do women...
The educated mind comes at a price: hundreds of hours of research and study; reams of papers; group projects; intensive examinations; conscientious notes from lengthy lectures. And for doctoral candidate students, that's the easy part, says Washingtonian Shireen...
by Avonie Brown No doubt you have heard it said in more ways than one that, "Black people just can't get it together;" or that "We don't know how to work together." But just how truthful are these statements? Our history of resistance and survival suggests otherwise....
by Shireen K. Lewis, Ph.D. Originally published on AAUW.org In September 1997 I founded a dissertation support group at Sisterspace and Books, a Washington, D.C. bookstore, to introduce a new paradigm of mentoring and support for women doctoral candidates of color. I...
by Denise Barnes Shireen Lewis has climbed the fractious ivory tower. Now, she's demystifying the dreaded dissertation process for women of color who want to achieve doctoral status. Ms. Lewis, who holds a doctorate of philosophy in French literature from Duke...
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...
by Julianne Malveaux, Ph.D. Featured in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries, Black Issues in Higher Education, December 1999 What has the 20th century meant for African American women in higher education? Over a steaming cup of tea, I smile as I fall into the...
What about the women of Négritude? The Négritude movement has traditionally been characterized and historicized as a literary and cultural movement by black men against the imperialist, masculinist power of the West. There are very few studies that fully explore the...