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.

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All appearances

2015

Aspen Institute Arts Summit at the Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.

2014

Contemporary African Art at Cooper Gallery, Hutchins Center, Harvard University, [Co-organizer]

2014

Sundance Film Festival, Panel with Robert Redford, Dave Eggers, Chris Stone, and Jill Soloway, (Moderator), book launch event for The Rise

2014

Guest on The Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC, segment about The Rise

2014

Appearance on Late Night with Seth Myers, interview about The Rise

2014

Featured on Minnesota Public Radio, segment about The Rise

2014

Boston Book Festival, The Rise, Keynote

2014

Guest on NPR: TED Radio Hour

2014

Danville Regional Foundation, Keynote

2014

Federal Reserve Bank, annual conference, Keynote

2014

TED2014, Embrace the Near Win, Main stage talk, Vancouver, Canada

2014

Guest on MSNBC, The Cycle, segment about The Rise

2014

International Association of Privacy Professionals, Keynote

2014

Segment for the “Big Think,” Art and Social Justice

2014

Guest appearance on Charlie Rose, Interview about The Rise

2014

Law School Admissions Council, Asheville, NC, The Rise, Keynote

2014

Aspen Ideas Festival, invited lecture about The Rise

2014

Global American Studies Symposium, Warren Center, Harvard University

2014

The New York Public Library, Conversation with Anna Deavere Smith [Book launch for The Rise]

2013

Callaloo Conference, Oxford University

2013

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, panel on “African Art, New York and the Avant Garde”

2013

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., “Photography in the Federal Art in Embassies Program”

2012

“‘Pictures and Progress’: Frederick Douglass, The Circassian Beauties, and American Racial Formation,” Society of Early Americanists Conference

2012

“A Conversation with Haile Gerima,” Sarah Lewis and Dagmawi Woubshet interviewing Haile Gerima, Callaloo Conference, Princeton University, [Co-organizer]

2012

“Nicola Green: Images of the 2008 Obama Campaign,” Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.