​Daniel R. Lewis

Daniel Lewis incentivizes and funds leaders in Creative Youth Development in the arts, that energize and enable thriving, change-making youth in under-resourced communities, and who can reach beyond their individual programs and work collaboratively toward meaningful and real change. Four strategies in pursuit of this vision are Music Access Miami, Miami/Interlochen Center for the Arts (program details), The Lewis Prize for Music, and The Management Center.

Daniel Lewis founded and led The Cleveland Orchestra’s residency in Miami, was the board chair of Spring for Music at Carnegie Hall, now Kennedy Center’s Shift Festival, and was on the executive committees of The Cleveland Orchestra and the League of American Orchestras.

He graduated from Miami University, taught at Cleveland's Glenville High School, was a real estate developer in Phoenix, and retired from Progressive Corporation having had senior management and board membership responsibilities.