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Errol Lewis

Errol T. Louis has been a columnist of the New York Daily News since June 2004, when he began writing on a wide range of political and social affairs. Mr. Louis is a member of the Daily News editorial board and a frequent guest on television and radio, including New York 1, Regional News Network, WNYC and WCBS-TV. Prior to joining the News, Mr. Louis was Associate Editor of the New York Sun, where he published hundreds of columns from 2002 to 2004 and won an award for commentary from the New York Association of Black Journalists. He has written a regular column, Commerce and Community, for Our Time Press newspaper since 1998. He served as Visiting Assistant Professor of Social Science at Brooklyn's Pratt Institute from 1998 to 2001. Mr. Louis formerly served as Executive Director of the Bogolan Merchants Association, a business improvement organization in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn. From 1993 to 1997, he was the Treasurer and Manager of the Central Brooklyn Federal Credit Union, a community-owned financial institution that he co-founded in 1993. Mr. Louis is the recipient of the 1996 New York Magazine Award as one of 10 New Yorkers making a difference “with energy, vision and independent thinking.” Mr. Louis holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Government from Harvard University (1984), a Master’s in Political Science from Yale (1989), and a Juris Doctorate from Brooklyn Law School (2005).

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