Lynn Lewis is an oral historian, educator and community organizer. Among her current oral history projects are the Picture the Homeless Oral History Project which she founded with long time homeless leaders of the organization to document their struggle for human and civil rights; exploring what that history means to the homeless leaders who shaped it. Through that process she has been exploring and documenting the possibilities of creating a participatory oral history research project. Additionally, she is working on a social history memoir of a civil rights elder utilizing oral history interviews and has conducted interviews for the NYC Covid-19 Oral History, Narrative and Memory Archive. She has conducted oral history workshops and presentations at Universities including Columbia, Princeton, and the New School among others, and has integrated oral history in educational curricula and community organizing trainings for grass roots organizations. She is the author of Love and Collective Resistance: Lessons from the Picture the Homeless Oral History Project. (Histoire sociale/Social history), and is an adjunct professor at The New School. She has an MA in Oral History from Columbia University.
Pronouns: She/Her/They/Them
Location: New York City
Languages: English
Looking for: Freelance, Consulting
Skills/Interests: Interviewing, Teaching (full classes), Teaching (workshops), Presenting, Indexing, Consulting, Community Organizing
Email: lynnmarielewis@gmail.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynn-lewis-126794163/