Twenty-five years after losing her husband Adam in the September 11 attacks, Patty Lewis has transformed grief into a living institution — the Adam J. Lewis Academy in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Adam believed education was the great equalizer, a conviction born from his own journey out of a one-bedroom Bronx apartment and into opportunity through scholarship. What began as one widow's unanswerable question has grown into a preschool-through-eighth-grade academy serving nearly 200 children in an underserved community, proving that a single life's philosophy, even when cut short, can continue shap
9/11 widow transforms tragedy into educational opportunity for hundreds
Adam J. Lewis was killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, leaving behind a wife and four children.