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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Upcoming appearances

All appearances

2024

Brooklyn Public Library, In conversation with Jacqueline Woodson and Hank Willis Thomas on The Unseen Truth

2024

Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture at UMBC, Race Stories: Celebrating Maurice Berger

2023

Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Tyrone Maurice Adderley Lecture

2023

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Arcadia Library Lecture, Keynote

2023

Spelman College Museum of Art, 2022-2023 Atlanta University Center Art History + Curatorial Studies Distinguished Lecture

2023

The Gibbes Museum of Art, Distinguished Lecture Series

2023

All Of It with Alison Stewart, Radio Interview, Richard Avedon at 100

2023

Stephen Friedman Gallery, In conversation with Deborah Roberts

2023

MIT Museum, Book launch event for Unmasking AI

2023

2 Pages with MBS, Podcast Interview, How to be a Light in the Darkness

2023

Facing History & Ourselves, The Power of Memorials and Public Art: Complex Histories and Legacies Today

2023

The Instructional Coaching Group, Keynote

2023

Activision, Company-wide event, Keynote

2023

PDT Partners, Women & Allies Speaker Series, Keynote

2023

Gartner IT Symposium / Xpo

2023

First Year and Junior Family Weekend, Vision & Justice: The Art of Race and American Citizenship

2023

Muhlenberg College, Vision & Justice, Keynote

2023

Association of Marshall Scholars, Art & Empathy: Through the Lens of Carrie Mae Weems, [Invited]

2023

Princeton Atelier, Sites of Memory: Gender, Performance, and the Law

2023

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Opening Artist Conversation with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, and Isaac Julien

2022

Marquette University, Excellence in Leadership Program Annual Banquet, Keynote

2022

University of North Carolina – Charlotte, Convocation of Arts and Architecture, Keynote

2022

32nd Annual James A. Porter Colloquium on African American Art and Art of the African Diaspora, Howard University, Opening Keynote

2022

Capital Community College, Pennington Lecture, Keynote