Nikki Lewis, Mpp, Msw Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, CA, US

Malibu, California, United States

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Greater Los Angeles Area

Private operating nonprofit organization that provides South LA with free access to museum-curated contemporary art, public programs, and programming to support transition-age foster youth. - Managed all programmatic activity with child welfare collaborator, including design and coordination of foster youth internship program and educational scholarship.

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

• Provide holistic academic advising and graduate/professional school advising to a pool of over 10,000 undergraduate students in the UCLA College of Letters and Science
• Conduct workshops, digital advising, and satellite location advising
• Focus on personal, professional, and intellectual development with students

Greater Los Angeles Area

- Conducted assessment to improve efficiency of operations, financial portfolio, organization policies and procedures, human resources, and management of the Board of Directors, resulting in implementation of Board of Director handbook and structure, greater financial oversight policies, and proposed Speakers’ Bureau

Greater Los Angeles Area

- Supported current and former foster youth in community organizing efforts by drafting guidebook and training curriculum for state chapters; proposed solution for national, multi-level legislation tracking

Greater Los Angeles Area

- Conducted extensive case management, syringe exchange, and community outreach at harm reduction facility in Skid Row- Trained in overdose prevention tactics, designed and facilitated weekly women’s support and co-ed group therapy, provided case management, and conducted intake assessments.

Kampala, Uganda

• Drafted a brief analyzing the cost-effectiveness of the SASA!, Activist Kit
• Assisted with preparation of six papers and corresponding presentation materials to be launched at the 2017 Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI)
• Assisted with the coordination and curriculum of a new course aimed at helping existing VAW prevention initiatives improve their content
• Drafted presentation deck for the Coalition of Feminists for Social Change (COFEM)
• Contributed to strategy meetings and VAW staff processes, sharing emerging findings and building rapport across the organization.Through this work I served as a Hilton Scholar throught the WORLD Policy Analysis Center.

Greater Los Angeles Area

- Analyzed quantitative data using STATA, drafted narratives for integration into research papers, and coordinated online assessments/focus groups/reports as part of a collective impact analyzing the effects of housing instability on child well-being in the LA Promise Zone.

Tempe, Arizona

• Mentoring and life skills program designed to support orphan and foster care youth in the Phoenix Metropolitan area through mentorship, workshops, and community service.
• Named by Forbes as one of three College Social Innovators of 2011.
• Named by Fast Company as one of the "bold ideas and brilliant urbanites who are helping to build the cities of America's future."
• Gained extensive knowledge and competency in 501(c)3 process, grant writing, public speaking, nonprofit and child welfare law, contract and legal documentation, nonprofit acquisition, fundraising, Board of Directors.
• Recipient of the Innovation Challenge funding grant competition

Bachelor Of Science, Business Management, International Business

Master Of Public Policy, Master Of Social Welfare

Activities and Societies: Luskin Policy Professionals for Diversity and Equity (PPDE) Programming Committee; Association of Masters of.