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Most people wouldn\u2019t see being sick as a good thing, but social work graduate student Frank Lewis views the semester of school he missed as a blessing in disguise.<\/p>\n

At the time, he was a sophomore at 51ÁÔÆæ and hadn\u2019t yet decided on a major, when recurring bouts of illness forced him to take some time away from school.<\/p>\n

\u201cTaking a semester off school slowed my progress to graduation,\u201d said Lewis. \u201cIt was a dark time for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although he\u2019d been writing since he was a child, only his mother and his teachers had seen his work. So he seized the time off as an unexpected opportunity to follow his long-held dream of writing a book.<\/p>\n

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“Omari” was published by Tandem Light Press.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI had just read \u2018Black Boy\u2019 by Richard Wright, and I was really fascinated reading about his experiences in the mid-1960s in the South,\u201d Lewis said. \u201cI was inspired to write a similar story, but more modern, about a young black male just trying to understand life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Four years later, Lewis\u2019 book \u201cOmari,\u201d about a young black man struggling to find his place in the world, was published and is available on Amazon<\/a> and at Barnes & Noble<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy time off school really propelled me to declare a major and gave me the time to complete the book. I realized that our experiences \u2013 good and bad \u2013 mold us into the people we become. I just want to encourage my generation that you just never know why things happen in your life \u2013 just trust the journey.\u201d<\/p>\n

Turning himself around<\/h3>\n

His own journey \u2013 while not as crisis-ridden as that of the fictional Omari \u2013 has been filled with challenges.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s now in his second year of graduate school as a scholar in the Advanced Opportunity Program studying medical social work in the Helen Bader School of Social Welfare. He\u2019s come a long way since he was an indifferent student at Rufus King International Baccalaureate High School in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got caught up with wanting to hang out with popular people and not so much concentrate on my grades,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

That changed when he was helping out in the school office during his final years of high school. \u201cThey had a board up, and would put a pin up for every state where a student was accepted to college. At that time, it dawned on me that I had lost sight of what my goal really was in high school.\u201d<\/p>\n

Through a great deal of hard work, he was able to raise his high school GPA from 1.8 to a 2.4 \u2013 still not good, he said, but enough to get an interview with a 51ÁÔÆæ recruiter who saw potential in him because of his hard-fought academic comeback.<\/p>\n

51ÁÔÆæ ‘opened doors for me’<\/h3>\n

He entered 51ÁÔÆæ with support from the Academic Opportunity Center, earning a 3.4 in his first year and becoming a Lawton Scholar. Even with the setback of that semester off, he earned his bachelor\u2019s degree in social work in May 2017 and started graduate school that fall.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really grateful I came to 51ÁÔÆæ. It has opened doors for me, and I\u2019ve had the opportunity to do a lot,\u201d Lewis said.<\/p>\n

He worked as a research assistant with David Pate, associate professor of social work, and Joan Blakey, an associate professor of social work who now teaches at Tulane University. He entered the Maternal and Child Health program under the guidance of Victoria Moerchen, associate professor of health sciences. One of the highlights of his undergraduate years, he said, was being able to present his research on the impact of parental trauma on child-rearing at a conference in North Carolina.<\/p>\n

Angie Izard, a student services coordinator in Global Inclusion and Engagement, met Lewis when he enrolled in her educational psychology study skills course. She was a major influence in encouraging him academically and in his writing, he said. Izard put him in touch with a small company in Atlanta, Tandem Light Press, which agreed to publish the book<\/a> he\u2019d written during his semester off.<\/p>\n

A look the life of a young African-American man<\/h3>\n

\u201cOmari\u201d is grounded in Lewis\u2019 experience as a young African-American man, but it isn\u2019t autobiographical. His main character comes from a well-to-do family living in a gated community with two siblings. Like Lewis, Omari is succeeding, but his older brother has gotten into some difficulties. Eventually, Omari is faced with losing his comfortable life, taking care of his younger sister and reconciling with his brother. Lewis is an only child, but he wanted the book to reflect some of the challenges other aspiring young black men face, while also counteracting media stereotypes.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes in the media we are depicted very negatively,\u201d Lewis said. \u201cI wanted to highlight that there are black males, such as me, who are ambitious, have goals and aspirations and are trying to help take care of their families even when they are going through things in life.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the book is grounded in the experiences of a young, black male, Lewis hopes the theme is universal. \u201cI want people to think, \u2018something like that happened to me.\u2019 I think anybody \u2013 whether they are white, black or Hispanic \u2013 can relate to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Plenty of plans<\/h3>\n

Meanwhile, Lewis is focused on finishing up his master\u2019s degree in the spring, and starting an internship in medical social work at the Bread of Healing Clinic. He is also launching \u201cOmari\u201d at a series of book signing events \u2013 this spring and summer he was at the Wisconsin Black Historical Society and Museum in Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Public Schools alumni reunion, the Rufus King MVP program, Educators Credit Union, the Atlanta African-American Book Festival at Georgia State University and was a vendor at a production of \u201cFame, Jr.\u201d at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts in Memphis, Tenn.<\/p>\n

He hasn\u2019t started work on a second book yet, but is planning to continue to write.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are so proud of Frank\u2019s achievements,\u201d said Karen Parrish Baker, who worked with him in the AOC\u2019s Summer Bridge program. \u201cHe has come a long way since his college start in the AOC Summer Bridge Program and has a bright future ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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