But when Lewis started college last year, he picked a major in political science.
“I barely knew what poli sci was,” said Lewis, 19, a sophomore at Augsburg University in Minneapolis. “And then I got a job at a day care, and I had always in the back of my mind thought, ‘Maybe teaching, maybe teaching.’”
But as a Black man and the first in his family to go to college, Lewis said he faced pressure to go to school for something more lucrative.
“And on top of that, I only see white women,” he said. “I never looked at my teachers and thought, ‘That s gonna be me one day.’”