
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.
Aspen Institute Arts Summit at the Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.
Contemporary African Art at Cooper Gallery, Hutchins Center, Harvard University, [Co-organizer]
Sundance Film Festival, Panel with Robert Redford, Dave Eggers, Chris Stone, and Jill Soloway, (Moderator), book launch event for The Rise
Guest on The Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC, segment about The Rise
Appearance on Late Night with Seth Myers, interview about The Rise
Featured on Minnesota Public Radio, segment about The Rise
Boston Book Festival, The Rise, Keynote
Guest on NPR: TED Radio Hour
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.