Lance Lew - Director

Lance joined the Farrington board in 2019 and brings a wealth of community, volunteer, and grant-making experience to our board table. He served as Director, Community Marketing at NBC Bay Area from 2002 to 2021 and comes to us with a long list of volunteer accomplishments and deep understanding of local community affairs.

His many professional and volunteer accomplishments include: co-founding the Asian Pacific Fund’s "Growing Up Asian in American" essay and art contest, the largest educational youth program in the country celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage month, a program that has distributed over $250,000 in awards to 700+ students in the past twenty years; serving on California State University Chico Foundation’s Board of Governors; receiving the Distinguished Alumni Award representing the College of Education and Communications from Cal State Chico; establishing the Outstanding College of Communications Student Award in honor of his late father, Norman W. Lew; and supervising NBC Bay Area’s Project Innovation grant program, which each year distributes twelve community grants totaling $325,000.

Lance holds a B.A. in Speech Pathology and Audiology from California State University Chico.