Visiting Professor: Lewis King, PhD

Liberal Studies Program Visiting Professor
Lewis King, PhD

He is a current Senior Scholar for the Tom & Ethel Bradley Foundation. In 2009, Dr. King designed and implemented the first Culturally Focused Finance Literacy program for use with over 7,000 Head Start teachers and parents in San Bernardino. He was elected as President of the Greater Crenshaw Education Partnership (GCEP) in 2011. He was a professor of Human Development at UCLA and Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science during 1984 and 2007. 

He is an active community member who has collaborated with national and local programs in academic research and community improvement. He has held many leadership roles and has an endless list of accomplishments.

Liberal Studies at CSUN is excited to have him as a visiting scholar and our entire campus will benefit from his extensive knowledge. Dr. King is currently working on ​a social model for what he calls "intentional civility."

A small list of his many publications:

• King, L.M., Price, E, and Myers, H. The Black Child: Critical Psychological Issues. UCLA Manuscript, 1972.
• King, L.M., Nobles, W and Dixon, V. (Editors). African Philosophy: Assumptions and Paradigms in Research on Black Persons. Fanon Center Publications, 1977 Los Angeles.
• King, L.M., Education for Emancipation: An Alternative to Compensatory Education. National Institute of Education Research Reports, NIE 1977, ERIC Publications, Washington.
• King, L.M. Nutritional Standards for School Aged Children, Congressional Reports, Testimony on School Meals before USDA, Los Angles, 1993.
• King, L.M. Health as a Form of Identity, UCLA Extension/ LAUSD, Health Education for Teachers, Los Angles, 1995.
• King, L.M. Children’s Search for Coherence: On the role of Educators in the Child’s Health Education, UCLA Extension/ LAUSD, Health Education for Teachers, Los Angeles, 1996.
• King, LM Culturally Contextualized Educational Pedagogy: Theory and Practice, Western Region Council on Educating Children of Minority Cultures, Manhattan Beach, Cal. 2003