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
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]
New York University, Center for Black Visual Culture/Institute of African American Affairs, The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship, A book talk with Sarah Lewis, Matthew Fox-Amato and Deborah Willis
Roger Williams University, School of Architecture, “Groundwork: Race and Aesthetics in the Era of Stand Your Ground Law”
ASALH and PBS Books, To Make Their Own Way in the World, A Conversation with Deborah Willis, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, and Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, moderated by Ilisa Barbash
Capella University, Commencement Address (Virtual)
Rasmussen University, Annual Academic Symposium
Museum of Tolerance, Mr. SOUL! Virtual Q+A, featuring Doug Blush, Nikki Giovanni, Melissa Haizlip, Blair Underwood, moderated by Sarah Lewis