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Anita M.Lewis
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| Anita M.Lewis Immediate Past President Legislative Program Manager, Health Partners |
Currently the Legislative Program Manager for Health Partners of Philadelphia, a managed care health organization, Anita M. Lewis sharpened her professional skills working in the non-profit, advertising, government and media industries for over 15 years. Prior to joining Health Partners, she served as the Communications/Public Relations Liaison for Pennsylvania State Senator Vincent J. Hughes and as a public relations consultant, offering her expertise in strategic communications for long-term publicity, media relations, government affairs and community relations. Many of her clients included The Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia, Salaam Enterprises, Inc., Berean Institute, Universal Companies, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Uniworld Communications in New York and a host of political leaders in Philadelphia.
An advocate of programs and opportunities that focus on youth and young adults, Ms. Lewis has served on the boards for both the National Black Child Development Institute, the North Philadelphia Community Compact for College Access, Freire Charter School and Columbia-North YMCA. She has also served and as a committee member of the Women of Color Leadership Institute for NARAL, the Annual Women Making a Difference event hosted annually by Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown, the 2006 National Organization for Women (N.O.W.) regional conference and the public relations chair for the 14th Women Gather Conference event hosted during Women's History Month.
Ms. Lewis is certified with the Mayor's Commission on Literacy in Philadelphia, PA, completed the Foundation Center's Proposal Writing Seminar and attended a host of other grant writing, fundraising and special events workshops. She facilitates a basic public relations & media workshop for American Cities Foundation's Community Leadership Training Institute.
Along with being one of the founding members and immediate-past president of the Philadelphia Black Public Relations Society (BPRS), Ms. Lewis is also a member of the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists (PABJ) and the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Inc., Pennsylvania Chapter. She was acknowledged as a Philadelphia Leader in the Philadelphia Tribune Newspaper's Most Influential Philadelphian in both 2004 and 2005. Also in 2004, she was honored as a Young Women Making a Difference by Councilwoman Blondell Reynolds Brown and as one of the Philadelphia Business Journal's 40 Under 40 in 2005. In 2006, Berean Institute in Philadelphia, noted her as one of the Living American History Makers.
She received her undergraduate degree from Temple University School of Journalism and obtained her masters in communication research from the University of Akron in Ohio.
Currently residing in Philadelphia, Ms. Lewis is a native of St. Louis, Missouri.