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Nicholas Thomas-Lewis, MS

PhD Student
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California

Nicholas Thomas-Lewis, MSc, is a PhD student in Medical Anthropology at the University of California, San Francisco and UC Berkeley. His research examines adolescent addiction at the intersection of medical, educational, and carceral institutions, with a focus on how youth themselves navigate and reshape these institutional imaginaries seeking to define them. Drawing on his interdisciplinary training in cognitive science, public health, social policy, and anthropology, Nicholas explores questions of agency, care, stigma, and structural violence in the lives of young people. Nicholas holds two MSc degrees from the University of Oxford, one in Evidence-Based Social Intervention and Policy Evaluation and another in Medical Anthropology, and a BA in Cognitive Science and Health & Societies from the University of Pennsylvania. His work bridges ethnography, critical theory, and public engagement to foreground youth voices in conversations about addiction, recovery, and institutional responsibility. Beyond his academic research, he co-directs the Compass Foundation, a nonprofit supporting rural high school students in the American Heartland, reflecting his commitment to educational equity and youth well-being.

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