[1][2] Ray Lewis was founder and director of Eastside Young Leaders' Academy, a youth leadership development organisation based in the Newham, east London.
Other roles included Senior Advisor to the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, focusing on solutions to youth crime and mentoring.
On 3 July 2008, Mayor of London Boris Johnson announced an independent inquiry into multiple allegations including financial misconduct, to be headed by Martin Narey, the former chief of the Prison and Probation Service.
The allegations included claims that Lewis was entrusted with £25,000 from a woman in the congregation in the Parish of St Matthew, West Ham in the Diocese of Chelmsford.
Lewis was appointed a commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2022 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours for political and public service.