Meet the Freedom House Board of Directors

Members of the Freedom House Board of Directors serve on a voluntary basis. Directors are elected by their peers to serve for a term of three years. We'll be introducing our Board for the following week.

Donna L Lewis

Donna Lewis is a co-founder of Freedom House. She currently holds the position of Chief Executive Officer for the organization. She has an extensive background in business, business law, and business management through her 25 years of retail and real estate experience.
Donna is a board member for the San Diego Brain Injury Foundation and currently holds the position of Secretary. Through her association with this organization, Donna has met numerous people with family members who suffer from a traumatic brain injury. They share the same interests in trying to find the means to provide group homes for people with brain injuries who have the desire to live independently.

Beverly Thompson was one of those parents. Beverly wrote an article for the foundation newsletter that described, basically, the same interests she had for her daughter, Pia, as Donna had for her son, James. Donna contacted Beverly after reading the article and they formed a partnership with the objective of establishing Freedom House.

Donna is the mother of a 34 year old son, James, who suffers from Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI).