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
Filmed appearances
All appearances
College Art Association 2021 Annual Conference, “Belated Exposure: Crafting an Anthology on Carrie Mae Weems, African American Art and the Archives as Method,” Writing Black Archives: African-American Art History in Real Time. [Co-Chair with Jordana Moore Saggese]
Yale School of Architecture, 2021 George Morris Woodruff, Class of 1857, Memorial Lecture
Capella University Commencement Address Speaker
Silicon Valley Bank, Quarterly Speaker Series
Ralph Lauren, Company-wide event, Vision & Justice, Keynote
Facebook Live Audio Room, featuring Sarah Lewis, Yara Shahidi, and Trevor Noah
Black Trustee Alliance for Art Museums, Inaugural Convening, Opening Keynote
Greenville Racial Equity and Economic Mobility Commission
YWCA Wisconsin, 17th Annual “An Evening to Promote Racial Justice”
MASS Superintendents General Session, [state-wide gathering of school superintendents], Vision & Justice, Keynote
Black Art, A Conversation with Richard J. Powell and Sarah Lewis, Hirshhorn Museum [Book Launch]
Film at LACMA, Black Joy and Resilience Film Series, Mr. SOUL! A Post-Screening Conversation with Melissa Haizlip, Blair Underwood, Nikki Giovanni, and Sarah Lewis, moderated by Neal Lester
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Talks: John Edmonds and Sarah Lewis
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, People: A Global Dialogue on Museums and Their Publics, Closing Keynote
Higher Learning Commission, 2021 Annual Conference, Opening Keynote
Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Center for Cultural Analysis Conference, “Caucasian War: Race and the Remaking of Vision in America”
Justice Works 2021, Vision & Justice, Keynote
Harvard Book Store, Tina M. Campt in conversation with Sarah Lewis
Arizona State University, School of Art, Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Speaker Series, “Vision & Justice: Race, Citizenship, and America”
Carnegie Mellon University, School of Architecture, Spring 2021 Lecture Series, “Groundwork: Race and Aesthetics in the Era of Stand Your Ground Law”
Peabody Essex Museum, Keynote
New York Public Library, Work/Cited. [Presentation on The Unseen Truth manuscript]