Christina Lewis facts for kids

Christina Lewis Halpern is an American social entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist, and writer.

Life and education

Lewis was born around 1980. She grew up in New York City with her parents and sister. Her father, Reginald F. Lewis, was a pioneer on Wall Street and the first African American to own a billion-dollar company in the US. Her mother, Loida Nicolas Lewis, is a Filipino-born American businesswoman who served as Chair and CEO of TLC Beatrice after her husband died.

Lewis attended Harvard University where she graduated in 2002 with an A.B. in French and American History Literature.

Career

Lewis is the Founder of Beatrice Advisors, an independent, woman- and minority-owned multi-family office, that she launched in June 2024. It is the first business of its kind owned by a Black woman.

In 2020, Christina founded Giving Gap (formerly Give Blck) a nationally-recognized platform that has channeled millions of dollars to Black causes around the United States.

In 2013, she founded All Star Code, a computer science education non-profit that dramatically increased awareness of the underrepresentation of boys of color in tech. The Obama Whitehouse honored Lewis as a Champion of Change in 2014.

Lewis is an Executive Producer of an untitled biopic, based on her father financier Reginald Lewis’ life and posthumously-published memoir “Why Should White Guys Have All the Fun?” The project is being developed by Charles King of MACRO. She is also a member of the WIE Suite and Vice Chair of The Reginald F. Lewis Foundation.

In the early years of her career Lewis was an award-winning journalist, and spent five years as a staff writer for the Wall Street Journal and one year as a ‘night cops’ reporter in Stamford, CT.

Personal life

Lewis lives in New York City with her husband and their three children.