Bertha Lewis (activist)

Bertha Lewis is the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Organizer of ACORN, a non-profit, non-partisan social justice organization with national headquarters in New York, New Orleans and Washington, D.C. United States.

Appointed in May 2008, Ms. Lewis oversees the operations of its 400,000 strong membership, which is active in over 110 cities across the country. A 16 year veteran of the organization, Ms. Lewis was most recently the Executive Director of ACORN’s New York affiliate and is a founding Co-Chair of the New York Working Families Party.