Impatient Optimists
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Lauren Lewis

Title Assistant Director
Organization Achieving the Dream, Inc.

Lauren Lewis is Assistant Director of Communications for Achieving the Dream, Inc., a national nonprofit that helps more community college students, particularly students of color and low-income students, stay in school and earn a college certificate or degree. In this role, Lewis coordinates all strategic communications and marketing for Achieving the Dream, including media outreach, web strategy, paid media, publications, branding, and stakeholder relations.

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Community College Students Telling It Like It Is

January 30, 2012 / Lindsay Kelley, Lauren Lewis

A new video competition provides a platform for students to share their voices on waht it takes to stay in college.

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  • "Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward." —Melinda Gates

  • The Global Fund has helped to deliver more than 190 million bed nets to protect families from malaria.

  • "The world faces a clear choice. If we invest relatively small amounts, many more poor farmers will be able to feed their families." —Bill Gates, 2012 Annual Letter

  • "When it come to global health, Bill and I are optimists—but we're impatient optimists. Tremendous progress is being made. But there is still so much we're impatient to see done." —Melinda French Gates

  • In Senegal, 80% of households now have a bed net, helping the number of malaria cases there drop 50% in a single year.

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