Christina Lewis Halpern is an American

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, investor, philanthropist, and writer.

Life and education

Lewis was born around 1980. She grew up in

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with her parents and sister. Her father, Reginald F. Lewis, was a pioneer on

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and the first

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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

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where she graduated in 2002 with an A.B. in French and American history literature.

Career

Lewis is the founder of Beatrice Advisors, a family office that she launched in June 2024. In 2020, Lewis founded the Giving Gap] (formerly Give Blck) a philanthropic platform. In 2013, she founded All Star Code, a computer science education non-profit focused on boys of color in technology. The Obama administration awarded Lewis with a Champion of Change acknowledgement 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?'' As of 2022, the project was 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 a journalist and spent five years as a staff writer for the ''Wall Street Journal'' and one year as a crime reporter in Stamford, Connecticut.

Personal life

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

References

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