Karen Bellamy Lewis, IFPTE 

Karen Bellamy Lewis has been employed with IFPTE as an International Representative since 2001.  She is assigned to the Atlantic Area where she provides the local unions with assistance in contract negotiations, grievances, shop steward training, organizing and member representation.  

She is president of the (ISU) International Staff Union, a Vice President of national (CLUW) Coalition of Labor Union Women, a NJ AFLCIO Executive Board member, a Vice President of the (MCCLC) Mercer County Central Labor Council, and a Trustee of the Central Jersey (CBTU) Coalition of Black Trade Unionist. 

Karen is very active in her church and community.  She was elected in 2022 to the Mercer County Democratic Committee as a Committee Member.  She is an officer at Greater Mt. Zion AME Church (the oldest African American church in the capital city of Trenton NJ),  and president of the Women’s Missionary Society.  She also serves as a board member of (SandSJ) Salvation and Social Justice and the Kingsbury Corporation Housing in Trenton, NJ.