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Tonya Lewis Lee is an accomplished author writing three children's books : Please Baby Please(2002), Please Puppy Please(2004) and Giant Steps to Change the World(2011) all with Simon & Schuster. She is also the co-author of the best selling novel, Gotham Diaries.
For five years Lewis Lee has served as the national spokesperson for the A Healthy Baby Begins with You campaign initiated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health to raise awareness about the infant mortality crisis in the United States. Additionally, she produced Crisis in the Crib: Saving Our Nation's Babies, a documentary film about the campaign and efforts to reduce infant mortality rates. And in December 2009, Lewis Lee, through Madstone Company Inc, launched HealthyYouNow.com, a website dedicated to supporting women on their journey to achieve an optimal lifestyle of health and wellness. Through women's stories, tips from experts and the latest news, HealthyYouNow.com, keeps women up to date on issues related to their health.
Outspoken on the issues of women and race, Lee has appeared on national and local television and radio across the country. She has also written for magazines such as Avenue, Gotham, O at Home and Glamour to which she contributed two campaign trail interviews (2007 and 2008) with Michelle Obama. She has also been featured in The New York Times, Avenue, Town and Country, New York Magazine, O, Essence, Ebony, NV Magazine, Redbook, Child and New York Family Magazine.
She has received numerous awards for her literary, production and advocacy work.
Lewis Lee graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a B.A. and from the University of Virginia School of Law with a J.D.
Tonya Lewis Lee lives in New York City with her two children 17 and 15 and her husband Spike Lee.




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