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College of Environment and Design

Jennifer Lewis

Job Title: Outreach Coordinator / Interim Director Center for Community Design and Preservation

Contact

Email: jmlewis@uga.edu
Phone: (706) 542-6760
Street address: 285 S. Jackson St.
Athens GA 30602
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Personal Interests

Academic service-learning, community design centers, Complete Streets policies, design charrettes, downtown revitalization, historic preservation, historic preservation commissions, historic schools as schools, neighborhood revitalization, urban design

 

 

 

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Biographical Information

Jennifer Lewis is the Outreach Coordinator and Interim Director of Center for Community Design and Preservation at the UGA College of Environment and Design (CED). She links Georgia's needs with the resources of CED faculty and students through service-learning opportunities. As a liaison between CED and the Office of the Vice-President for Public Service and Outreach, she is tasked with identifying new opportunities that involve collaboration between Public Service & Outreach units and CED that address critical needs in Georgia, provide opportunities for instructional and applied research collaborations, and engage students in outreach projects and programs. Additionally, she provides community meeting facilitation and presentations on a variety of topics, including the Georgia Historic Preservation Act, local historic preservation commissions and design review, downtown revitalization, design charrettes and other tools that assist communities in protecting what is significant from their past and managing future growth. 

Jennifer was a 2018 member of the Vivian H. Fisher Public Service and Outreach Leadership Academy, a 2011 UGA Service Learning Fellow and served on the Board of Trustees for the Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation for six years, including as its President and as Chairman of the 50th Anniversary Committee. She has served as Georgia’s Certified Local Government Coordinator and as Design Manager for the statewide Better Hometown Program. 

Portfolio

Education

1995 Bachelor of Arts, Art History and Studio Art, College of Charleston
2002 Master of Historic Preservation, The University of Georgia
2012 Charrette System Certificate, National Charrette Institute

Selected Publications

Master of Historic Preservation Thesis: “We Become Like That Which We Constantly Admire: Justifying the Use of Historic School Buildings as Schools”

ORGANIZATIONS

Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation

Citizens for Healthy Neighborhoods

CAPPA – Community Approach to Planning Prince Avenue Steering Committee

Honors and Awards

  • Vivian H. Fisher PSO Leadership Academy (2017-18)
  • Service-Learning Fellow, Office of Service Learning, The University of Georgia (2011-12)
  • President of the Board of Trustees, Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation (2010-11)
  • Trustee of the Year, Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation (2009)
  • “40 Under 40”, Athens Banner-Herald (2009)
  • Athens-Clarke Heritage Foundation Preservation Award for Outstanding Achievement, to Community Approach to Planning Prince Avenue Steering Committee (2004)
  • Sigma Pi Kappa Preservation Honor Society, The University of Georgia (1997)