Shelby Lewis, PhD

Dr. Shelby Lewis is Professor Emeritus at Clark Atlanta University, Executive Director of The Lewis Foundation, and an international development consultant. Dr. Shelby Lewis was appointed by President Barack Obama in November 2010 to the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board. As a Senior Fulbright Lecturer at the National University of Lesotho from 1982 to 1983, she helped establish the Women’s Research Collective. Lewis also served as an international consultant in Zimbabwe from 1985 to 1987, where she helped found a pan-African women’s forum and the Development Consultants Network, a development company. Lewis served on the Board of the Council for the International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) for two terms and established a partnership between CIES and the United Negro College Fund Special Programs, Inc. (UNCF/SP) during her tenure as Vice President for International Development and Director of University-to-University Linkage Programs at UNCF/SP.