Biography

Michelle Lewis is the founder of The Color Institute™ and creator of two registered frameworks: the Universal Language of Color™ and the Universal Color Psychology Standard®. Her work sits at the intersection of color psychology, cognitive science, and instructional design — translating research on visual perception into practical standards that institutions can implement immediately, within tools they already use.

She is the author of Color Secrets: Learning the One Universal Language We Were Never Taught, holds training in Color Methodologies from UCLA, and is certified in color analysis and interior design. She serves on the Board of Advisors for OnHue, a digital color accessibility platform, and is an EMBA candidate at Quantic University.

Lewis has been featured in Fast Company, HuffPost, Daily Mail, Insider, and TEDx Tarrytown, and has consulted with brands and institutions on color strategy for over a decade. Her education consulting work focuses on helping instructional designers and academic technology teams build color standards that improve clarity, reduce cognitive load, and strengthen assessment validity — at institutional scale.