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
DREAM, 22nd Annual Convening, Keynote
Hutchins Center, Harvard University, Reflections in Black, Deborah Willis in conversation with Sarah Lewis
Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life & Dartmouth Society of Fellows, Dartmouth University, Keynote
Learning Through Photography Symposium, Princeton University
Filmed appearances
All appearances
Prada Mode x Frieze, Sarah Lewis in conversation with Martine Syms
APA Eastern Division Meeting, APA Committee Session: Danto/ASA Prize Lecture
U.S. Attorneys Conference, Keynote
Seekonk Public Schools, Professional Development Day, Keynote
University of Southern Mississippi, Honors Forum Lecture Series
The Curb Center for Art Enterprise and Public Policy, Vanderbilt University, Keynote
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