Media | SisterMentors

SisterMentors in Duke Magazine, Summer 2013, Read article here.
Honorary Degree Recognizes SisterMentors, May 1, 2012, clickhere.
Article on SisterMentors. Published June 24, 2011 in theWashington Informer.
Article on Shireen Lewis and SisterMentors. Published February, 2010, inRutgers Today.
SisterMentors inESSENCE Magazine, January 2010.Click hereto read pdf version of the article.
SisterMentors featured in the Fall 2009 edition ofUVA Lawyer magazineof The University of Virginia School of Law.Click hereto read a pdf version of the article.
SisterMentors was featured in the March 2007 issue ofInside Higher Ed.Click hereto read a pdf version of the article.
In January 2003 SisterMentors was featured inDIVAS, a magazine for women of color, published in Paris, France. DIVAS is distributed in France, the United States, Martinique, and Guadeloupe. You can read the article in bothEnglishandFrench.
The August 2002 issue ofESSENCElists organizations nation-wide that empower girls by addressing the areas of education, leadership and self-esteem, health and fitness, politics and activism, entrepreneurship, vocations and careers, and the arts. SisterMentors is highlighted for its mentoring of middle and high school girls of color, instilling in them the benefits of staying in school. (page 129)
SisterMentors,Washington Woman, February 2001
Reinventing Community: SisterMentors Dissertation Support Groups For Women Of Color,Metro Connection, January 2001
Women of Color Mentoring Each Other,AAUW Network, Winter 2000
Dissertation Writers Find Power in Numbers – Group Support Keeps Them on Doctoral Track,Washington Times, September 2000
In June/July 2000, SisterMentors’ founder, Dr. Shireen Lewis, was declared a “Woman to Watch” byMs. Magazine. Ms. is described by its editors as “the first national magazine to make feminist voices audible, feminist journalism tenable, and a feminist worldview available to the public.” R. Erica Doyle, who wrote the piece in Ms., describes Dr. Lewis’ creation of SisterMentors as “her antidote to the academy’s chronic undervaluing of scholarship by and about women of color.” Clickherefor the full article.
Replicating Ourselves In the Twentieth andTwenty-firstCenturies,Black Issues in Higher Education, December 1999