Lewis takes Post as New Deputy Assistant Secretary for International and Foreign Language Education

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On Monday October 19 the Department of Education announced three new political appointees. One of these is Andre Winston Lewis as the new Deputy Assistant Secretary for International and Foreign Language Education. Mr. Lewis, with a background in Russian Studies at the University of California – Berkley and a graduate of Boston University School of Law, is the first appointee to fill the position JNCL-NCLIS worked to create during the 110th Congress through the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act of 1965. Mr. Lewis also has extensive political experience locally in California and in Washington, DC and international experience with the State Department.