Appearances
Celebrated keynote speaker
Lewis is a sought-after public speaker whose mainstage TED Talk has garnered over three million views. She has delivered keynote commencement addresses at venues ranging from the UN General Assembly and the Edinburgh International Festival to World Business Forum and Yale University, as well as numerous universities and organizations across the United States and abroad.
Upcoming appearances
DREAM, 22nd Annual Convening, Keynote
Hutchins Center, Harvard University, Reflections in Black, Deborah Willis in conversation with Sarah Lewis
Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life & Dartmouth Society of Fellows, Dartmouth University, Keynote
Learning Through Photography Symposium, Princeton University
Filmed appearances
All appearances
Danville Regional Foundation, Keynote
Federal Reserve Bank, annual conference, Keynote
TED2014, Embrace the Near Win, Main stage talk, Vancouver, Canada
Guest on MSNBC, The Cycle, segment about The Rise
International Association of Privacy Professionals, Keynote
Segment for the “Big Think,” Art and Social Justice
Guest appearance on Charlie Rose, Interview about The Rise
Law School Admissions Council, Asheville, NC, The Rise, Keynote
Aspen Ideas Festival, invited lecture about The Rise
Global American Studies Symposium, Warren Center, Harvard University
The New York Public Library, Conversation with Anna Deavere Smith [Book launch for The Rise]
Callaloo Conference, Oxford University
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, panel on “African Art, New York and the Avant Garde”
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., “Photography in the Federal Art in Embassies Program”
“‘Pictures and Progress’: Frederick Douglass, The Circassian Beauties, and American Racial Formation,” Society of Early Americanists Conference
“A Conversation with Haile Gerima,” Sarah Lewis and Dagmawi Woubshet interviewing Haile Gerima, Callaloo Conference, Princeton University, [Co-organizer]
“Nicola Green: Images of the 2008 Obama Campaign,” Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
“A Writers’ Celebration of Romare Bearden, with Elizabeth Alexander, Stanley Crouch, Kwame Dawes, Khalil G. Muhammad, Sarah Lewis, and John Edgar Wideman,” 92nd Street Y, New York, NY
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., “Art and Architecture: Creating Community”
“Multiple Modernities and Global Art Worlds,” College Art Association, co-chaired with Leslie King-Hammond
Savannah College of Art and Design, deFINE Art Festival, Atlanta, GA, Keynote
“Pictures and Progress,” American Studies Association, Baltimore, MD
“Pictures and Progress: Frederick Douglass, The Circassian Beauties and American Racial Formation,” Yale University, History of Art Department
“‘Go Back to Russia! Go Back to Africa!’: Circassian Beauties and American Racial Formation,” The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale
Here and Now: African American Art and Film conference, sponsored by W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University and Tisch School of the Arts, New York University