Brad Lewis, Program Officer Community-Based Coordinator

Learn and Serve America
Corporation for National and Community Service

Three Expertise Keywords:
civic engagement, service-learning, youth voice

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Description of Current Work:

Bradford H. Lewis, ACSW (SL: Bradford Raymaker): is a Program Officer for Learn and Serve America at the Corporation for National and Community Service, an independent federal agency where he has served for over 13 years. He manages a grant portfolio in the North Central region of the United States as well as working on youth voice, community-based issues and technology initiatives.

As a member of the Steering Committee for the National Service-Learning Conference, he helped to bring Second Life residents into the conference, this past year through two-way streaming, and is planning for inclusion of mixed-reality workshop sessions in this year’s conference. He has been a panelist or speaker at Games for Change and Games for Health and is active on the Serious Games listserv.

Mr. Lewis received his Master’s Degree in Social Work (MSW) from Columbia University in 1983 and then worked in New York City and Connecticut for the next 10 years. Positions he held included directing youth leadership/after-school/service-learning programs, teen travel/residential summer camps, and Assistant Executive Director of a community YM-YWHA. He also served as a Governor’s appointee on the Connecticut Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee and more recently as Adjunct Faculty at the University of Maryland Graduate School of Social Work and Field Instructor for the Howard University Graduate School of Social Work.