Leanna Lewis, LCSW

Leanna W. Lewis is a social worker and serves as FIND’s program coordinator. At UCSF Benioff Oakland’s Center for the Vulnerable Child (CVC), she is also the Encore Medical Clinic’s oral health program coordinator.

Lewis earned her master's degree in social work at San José State University. In the nearly two decades since, she has worked with a culturally and socioeconomically diverse population of children, teens and families in schools, community agencies and health care settings.

Most recently, Lewis has been working in a program that provides mental health and other support services to foster youths and their families. She also has experience teaching and training in the areas of foster parent development, foster youth experiences, care of transition-age youths (at-risk young people, such as those transitioning out of foster care), cultural humility (providing care with awareness of and sensitivity to other people’s backgrounds) and culturally accountable mental health care. She has served as a member and leader of the CVC’s task force on cultural responsiveness and accountability, which is charged with expanding awareness of the impact of oppression, marginalization and racism in the institution and the community at large.