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
Case Western Reserve University, Baker-Nord Center 30th Anniversary Celebration, Keynote
Filmed appearances
All appearances
Brooklyn Public Library, In conversation with Jacqueline Woodson and Hank Willis Thomas on The Unseen Truth
Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture at UMBC, Race Stories: Celebrating Maurice Berger
Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Tyrone Maurice Adderley Lecture
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Arcadia Library Lecture, Keynote
Spelman College Museum of Art, 2022-2023 Atlanta University Center Art History + Curatorial Studies Distinguished Lecture
The Gibbes Museum of Art, Distinguished Lecture Series
All Of It with Alison Stewart, Radio Interview, Richard Avedon at 100
Stephen Friedman Gallery, In conversation with Deborah Roberts
MIT Museum, Book launch event for Unmasking AI
2 Pages with MBS, Podcast Interview, How to be a Light in the Darkness
Facing History & Ourselves, The Power of Memorials and Public Art: Complex Histories and Legacies Today
The Instructional Coaching Group, Keynote
Activision, Company-wide event, Keynote
PDT Partners, Women & Allies Speaker Series, Keynote
Gartner IT Symposium / Xpo
First Year and Junior Family Weekend, Vision & Justice: The Art of Race and American Citizenship
Muhlenberg College, Vision & Justice, Keynote
Association of Marshall Scholars, Art & Empathy: Through the Lens of Carrie Mae Weems, [Invited]
Princeton Atelier, Sites of Memory: Gender, Performance, and the Law
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Opening Artist Conversation with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, and Isaac Julien
Marquette University, Excellence in Leadership Program Annual Banquet, Keynote
University of North Carolina – Charlotte, Convocation of Arts and Architecture, Keynote
32nd Annual James A. Porter Colloquium on African American Art and Art of the African Diaspora, Howard University, Opening Keynote
Capital Community College, Pennington Lecture, Keynote