The Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel - St. Thomas More

c o r d i a l l y i n v i t e s y o u t o i t s n e x t

“ F a i t h I n A c t i o n T a l k ”

St. Thomas More • Rochester Room 65 East 89th Street • 212-876-7718

Tues., April 25 @ 7pm

The Role of God in My Life

an evening with

Loida Lewis

LOIDA NICOLAS LEWIS

Loida Nicolas Lewis is Chairman and CEO of TLC Beatrice, LLC, the Lewis family private invest-ment firm in the USA. Mrs. Lewis graduated from the University of the Philippines College of Law where she was a member of the Law Review editorial staff and is also a Cum Laude AB graduate of St. Theresa’s College in Manila. She was the first Filipino woman to pass the New York bar in 1974 without studying law in the USA.

After winning her discrimination case, she served for eight years as Gen-eral Attorney in the US Immigration and Naturalization Service now known as Citizenship and Immigration Service (CIS) and wrote a best seller in its genre entitled ”How to Get a Green Card”, now in its 12th edi-tion. She is Chair Emeritus of the National Federation of Filipino American Associations (NaFFAA), an advocacy group for Filipino Americans in the United States being a co-founder in 1997. She served as an informal adviser to her late husband, Reginald F. Lewis, the founder and CEO of TLC Beatrice International Holdings, Inc. in the largest leverage buyout by an African American, consisting of 64 compa-nies in 31 countries. His book “Why Should White Guys Have All The Fun” is available on Amazon.com. She assumed leadership of the Company in February 1994, a year after her husband’s death. The Company’s revenues increased to US $2.2 bil-lion and employed 4,500 employees around the world. She liquidated the company in 2002, resulting in a 35% internal rate of return. Mrs. Lewis is co-founder of the Asian American Legal Defense & Educa-tion Fund (AALDEF), chair of the Reginald F. Lewis Foundation, founder and president of The Lewis College in Sorsogon her birth place, in the Bicol region. She has two daughters and four grandchildren ranging in age two years old to eleven years old.