Career
In 1987, Lew was an organizer for the first west coast conference for Asian Pacific Lesbian and Gays. Lew also co-founded the Gay Asian Pacific Alliance Community Human Immunodeficiency Virus Project in San Francisco. The organization grew into a national service organization, was renamed the Living Well project, and eventually merged with the Asian Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome project to become the Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center in 1997.
Lew is a currently Senior Project Director for CompassPoint Nonprofit Services in Oakland, California.