Mela Lew

Mela Lew is a Bar Examiner with the Board of Bar Examiners of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She is also a member of the Character and Fitness Committee of the National Conference of Bar Examiners.

Ms. Lew is a 2008 graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School, from which she received her Master of Public Administration. Immediately prior, she was a Partner and the General Counsel of Atlas Venture, an international venture capital firm with over $2 billion under management. Before Atlas Venture, she served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Oak Industries Inc., a NYSE company that was acquired by Corning Incorporated in 2000.

Ms. Lew earned her J.D. from Cornell Law School, and an A.B. in French Literature and Sociology from Smith College. She serves on the non-profit Boards of the Center for Women & Enterprise, and the Milele Children’s Fund for Kenyan schoolchildren, and is a member of the Cornell Law Association Executive Board. Ms. Lew lives in Hamilton, Massachusetts with her husband and two young children.

Why CWE? I support CWE because I believe that economic self-sufficiency is key to self determination.  I love that CWE helps women who might never have realized their own potential to develop business acumen, and with it, find financial and personal independence.