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

2025

Brooklyn Public Library, Night in the Library

2025

Clemson University, History, Justice, and Representation, Keynote

2025

The Juilliard School, The 12th Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture

2025

Bridgewater State University, The Unseen Truth

2024

Washington National Cathedral, Sacred Spaces: Racial Justice & Spirituality in Action Convening, Unit based on The Unseen Truth

2024

Jane and Robert H. Weiner Lecture in the Fine Arts, Dickinson College

2024

Cerebral Women, podcast interview for The Unseen Truth

2024

New Books Network, The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America

2024

SXSW, Design as a Medium Within Visual Art

2024

National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts, 2024 NCECA Conference

2024

Aspen Ideas Festival, The Bigger Picture, Roundtable with Vincent Brown

2024

Equal Justice Initiative’s Dedication of Freedom Monument Sculpture Park and the Legacy Sites, The Arts & Justice, Panel discussion with Hank Willis Thomas, Alison Saar, Sarah Lewis, and Kwame Akoto-Bamfo