DR. LEWIS M. ANDREWS holds a bachelors degree in psychology from Princeton, a masters in communications research from Stanford, and a Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the Union Institute.  Andrews has been a Research Fellow at Yale University and a Visiting Scholar at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business.  He is the founder and former chair of the Children’s Educational Opportunity Foundation, a privately funded scholarship program for poor and minority children in Hartford, Bridgeport, and New Haven; and for 10 years he was the executive director of the Yankee Institute for Public Policy at Trinity College, Hartford.

Dr. Andrews has authored many popular and professional works, including Requiem for Democracy? (Holt), Man Controlled (Free Press), and To Thine Own Self Be True (Doubleday). His articles have appeared in such diverse publications as Saturday Review, the Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, the Nation, National Review, Policy Review, New Oxford Review, Budget and Tax News, Professional Counselor, School Reform News, Human Events, and the American Enterprise.

In addition to his writing projects, Andrews is the Senior Policy Analyst at the Yankee Institute and managing editor of Smarttowns.org, a website on town and school finance reform.