Sean Lewis is an activist. He was one of the founding members of the South Africa First Forum, which has now morphed into the Credible Alternative First Movement and is contesting the upcoming local elections on 1 November 2021.  

1976 was the year in which he began to understand the dynamics of apartheid oppression and exploitation. This led to Sean searching for greater insight, some of which he found in the Athlone Cultural Society, but much of his political growth came as the result of his university student days, in which he struggled with ideas of capitalism, socialism, permanent revolution and the relationship of all of these to bread-and-butter issues, such as housing and labour.

Post-university, Sean was involved in community politics in Heideveld, serving the Heideveld community as Chairman of Heideveld Youth Movement and as an executive member of the Heideveld-Vanguard Association. He was also involved in sport, as a player, coach, and administrator in Volleyball specifically. He served the Western Province Volleyball Union as President in the mid-eighties, he played a central role in the negotiations to create a single unified national volleyball federation in the early nineties.

Sean managed to secure a scholarship to do postgraduate study in the USA, and while living in Albany, New York for two years from 1987-1989, he served the South African student population studying at universities across the USA, as the Media Officer in the SRC. Later, in 1992-1994, while studying in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he founded the African Students Organisation at that university.

 Sean has also had a diverse professional career, ranging from teaching English at high school level in Cape Flats schools, to working as a Computer Programmer at UCT, as well as working as a Lecturer of English Language and Literature at UWC, before venturing in Public Relations Consulting, before coming back to IT as a Project Manager and then Manager of various portfolios.