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Melinda Lewis, LMSW (she/her/hers)

Professor of Practice
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas, United States

Melinda Lewis is a Professor of Practice in the School of Social Welfare at the University of Kansas. Her teaching is concentrated in the School’s graduate program, particularly within macro social work and policy courses, at the generalist and advanced levels. In her faculty role, Ms. Lewis provides advising and mentorship to students and field education agencies to support their capacities related to community organizing, policy analysis, and advocacy. She is also the Director of the School’s Center on Community Engagement and Collaboration, with responsibility in the areas of agency capacity-building, community-based evaluation, and public scholarship. This role builds on Melinda’s decade of work with nonprofit organizations to enhance their strategic communications, advocacy strategy development and execution, and evaluation of social change efforts, focused in the substantive domains of economic justice, family support, and human rights. For five years, Ms. Lewis was Assistant Director of the Center on Assets, Education, and Inclusion, now based at the University of Michigan. She is also co-author of the book Social Policy for Effective Practice: A Strengths Approach, which is widely used in BSW and MSW social policy courses in institutions around the country.

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