Rohan Lewis chose Brooklyn College – twice!
    The first time was just after his freshman year at the University of New Haven, where he says the campus culture just wasn’t what he was looking for, the classes were too small and the tuition was too expensive.
    “My mom was paying out of her pocket and she’s a single parent,” he explained.
    So Rohan transferred to Brooklyn College and spent nearly seven years taking classes part-time and working on Wall Street overtime before earning his undergraduate degree in economics.
    Last year he chose Brooklyn College for the second time, this time to complete a master’s degree, again in economics.
    “Given that I was making money at my full-time job, I could’ve chosen to go to any school I wanted,” says Lewis, who expects to finish his degree program in the fall of 2009. “I guess my decision to come back here to get my masters speaks for itself. There are great professors and the facilities are unique in New York City.
     “I had options,” he said, “and I thought this was my best choice.”
     Having worked in the financial industry for some six years -- including the Dime Savings Bank (which was eventually bought out by Washington Mutual), JP Morgan Chase and Progressive Insurance – he says he’s learned a lesson or two. Which is why Rogan now wants to work in risk management.
    “It’s in great demand nowadays,” says the Jamaica native, who went from an entry-level job     

where he did “everything under the sun” to becoming a broker after convincing the bank’s executives that he could complete the training and obtain his Series 7 and Series 63 professional licenses.
    Today he works at Country-Wide Claims Management Services, a 200-employee company whose business includes insurance adjusting, auditing and a law firm on Wall Street.