Bertha Lewis (activist)

Bertha Lewis (born 1951) was the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Organizer of ACORN, which was a nonprofit social justice organization with headquarters in New York City, New Orleans and Washington, D.C. until it disbanded in 2010.

She graduated from Hanover College.^[1] Appointed in May 2008, Ms. Lewis oversees the operations of its 400,000 strong membership, which is active in over 110 cities across the country. A 16-year veteran of the organization, Ms. Lewis was most recently the Executive Director of ACORN’s New York affiliate and is a founding co-chair of the New York Working Families Party.^[2]

Awards

• 2004 Citizen Activist Award of the Gleitsman Foundation for her work in public education reform.^[3]
• 2005 Leon Bogues award for community and political activism, by New York State Black and Puerto Rican Legislators, Inc.
• 2007 100 Most Influential Women of New York, by Crains magazine ^[4]
• 2006 “Influentials” in politics by New York magazine^[5]

References

External links

• "CEO Says ACORN 'Isn't Dead Yet'", NPR, Deborah Tedford, March 23, 2010
• "ACORN CEO Reflects On The Group's Hard Times", NPR, March 23, 2010
• "Bertha Lewis", Huffington Post
• "TIME Least Influential People of 2010"